Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He 's said to be acutely depressed , and is also thought to have a stomach ulcer .
2 At the time when the income of many of the top charities is said to be either static , or to have fallen , it 's essential for public in the private sector , do not forsake their supporting role .
3 Some 10,000 Nigerians , who were said to be either illegal immigrants or Nigerians who had volunteered to return , were repatriated in mid-October , prompting an official protest from the Nigerian government which alleged that the deportees had been mistreated ; the opposition Gabonese Progress Party also criticized the action as a breach of human rights .
4 Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive .
5 The picture enhancement feature is called H.261 Plus , and is said to be particularly effective at lower data rates in the 128Kbps to 384Kbps range , although it operates at speeds from 64Kbps to 2.048Mbps .
6 The system is said to be particularly useful for industrial and scientific applications like molecular modelling , computer animation , robotics control .
7 He is said to be particularly strong on heritage .
8 Trade and Industry Secretary Michael Heseltine was said to be particularly concerned about the adverse impact Dan-Air 's closure would have on services at Gatwick , where it was the largest operator with 24.3pc of the slots .
9 Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously .
10 ‘ Given a relation R , the attribute B is said to be functionally dependent on attribute A if at every instant of time each value of A has no more than one value of B associated with it in the relation R. ’
11 Tony Blair , Labour 's Employment Secretary , is said to be privately impressed that fewer days are now lost to strikes than at any time in the past 60 years .
12 Suzanne , who had also been burned by cigarettes , is said to be critically ill .
13 It is in this sense that monopoly is said to be economically inefficient , and to misallocate resources through the restriction of output .
14 An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own .
15 In this case the liquids are said to be partially miscible .
16 If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT .
17 Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth .
18 Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) .
19 If only one vector x exists for which Ax = 0 , A is said to be simply degenerate , or to have simple degeneracy ; if more than one such vector x exists , A has multiple degeneracy .
20 It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars .
21 But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment .
22 CELEX is open to the public and is available to subscribers by network , although that is said to be rather difficult to use .
23 One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators .
24 They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels .
25 Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case .
26 And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included .
27 It was said to be strongly critical of her role in its publication , her relationship with her husband and her role within the Royal Family .
28 Of all the ministers present for today 's crucial session of future spending and tax plans , Michael Partial , the chief secretary to the Treasury is said to be most eager to see further cuts in the military .
29 Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled .
30 If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue .
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