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

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1 All the men are said to be between 20 and 30 .
2 At Box all tesserae are said to be between 0.6 and 14.4 cm. sq .
3 The youths were both said to be aged 16 to 18 , 5ft 7in to 5ft 8in tall , and one had the name Pete tattooed on his knuckles .
4 The man has not been named by police but was said to be aged 23 .
5 The pieces are considered some of Peru 's finest archaeological treasures and are said to be of incalculable value .
6 The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine .
7 With n reactive components in the filter stage , the maximum rate of fall-off of outside the pass band becomes 20n dB per decade of frequency and the filter is accordingly said to be of nth order .
8 Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels .
9 Each one of us is said to be worth fifty thousand pounds of advertising per year to the tobacco companies . ’
10 Hell Hound on my Trail is given E4 5c and is said to be worth three stars .
11 The range is said to be from 3.2 to 4.2 and the period around 45 days , but I have never been able to make much periodicity out of it , and neither have I ever seen it brighter than magnitude 3.6 .
12 The printer is said to be in bit-image mode when this happens , for the code to fire a pin is the digit 1 and the code to leave a blank is the digit 0 .
13 Therefore Judaism and Islam could be said to be in one sense polytheistic and in one sense monotheistic .
14 Suppose a scene is said to be in correct perspective ?
15 Some $350m is said to be in Swiss banks .
16 He was said to be in good spirits , but this was assumed : he feared he would be denounced as a traitor on his return .
17 Tonight Flight Sgt Pritchard was said to be in good spirits in hospital .
18 Before the burglary he was said to be in good health .
19 He was said to be in financial difficulty when he tried to blackmail Hillier in May 1991 .
20 Labour is said to be in terminal decline because we have failed to identify , let alone appeal to , a natural constituency we might expect to provide us with majority support .
21 The 64-year-old male patient , who was suffering from arthritis , has asked not to be identified but was said to be in stable condition last night .
22 James Cocker , 53 , of Milton Road West , Edinburgh , was said to be in stable condition at Stirling Royal Infirmary last night after being recovered by the Killin mountain rescue team .
23 The two other survivors of the tragedy who remain in hospital , Samantha Stansby , 17 , and Emma Hartley , 16 , are said to be in satisfactory condition .
24 At Augusta , more than at almost any other golf course , disaster stalks the champions , particularly on the greens — which are said to be in fine , fiery form this year .
25 Only 10 per cent of the coast was said to be in excellent condition .
26 The end stage of the pathway is represented by CD4 + CD8 - TCR high+ or CD4 - CD8 + TCR high+ cells ( both are said to be in single positive , or SP , stages ) , which are mostly immediate precursors of major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) class II-restricted helper T cells and MHC class I-restricted cytotoxic T cells , respectively .
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