Example sentences of "said [prep] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , two of the conditions which are said to be necessary for Monitor use : time and focus on form . |
| 2 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 3 | Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops . |
| 4 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 5 | The plummy Home Counties accents were also said to be difficult for Americans to understand ( though this problem never seemed to arise when the same actors — James Mason , Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons — became Hollywood stars ) . |
| 6 | Public disagreement about a school is sometimes said to be bad for the education of its pupils . |
| 7 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 8 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 9 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 10 | The students could not be said to be responsible for their own actions and thoughts . |
| 11 | Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results . |
| 12 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 13 | UNITA admitted that abuses had occurred , but blamed N'Zau Puna , who was also said to be responsible for the disappearances . |
| 14 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 15 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 16 | The flames were put out in good time and the donkey was said to be fit for the final , against Preston North End . |
| 17 | What was identified as ‘ … general community work … organising groups to bring pressure to bear … becoming a focus in the neighbourhood for campaigns , ’ was said to be inappropriate for a legal service . |
| 18 | There were other alleged cases when guards were playing scrabble instead of going on patrol and one was said to be unfit for work through drink . |
| 19 | Apilco is said to be safe for use in the oven , microwave ( those without metallic binding ) , freezer and dishwasher . |