Example sentences of "said to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |
| 2 | Although the recession was said to be the major cause , blame was also aimed at tycoon Gerald Ratner , whose father founded the firm and built it up to become Britain 's biggest jewellery chain . |
| 3 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 4 | This hard , fast and unmelodic ‘ punk ’ music was said to be the new music of the skinheads . |
| 5 | Main topics of the latest talks were said to be the new pluralist political system , a draft electoral law , and a timetable and monitoring arrangements for multiparty elections due to be held in 1992 . |
| 6 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 7 | Alexander was said to be the only mortal Bucephalus would ever respect and the only one who was successful in saddling and mounting him ; with all other men , Bucephalus had sensed their greed and weakness and had spurned them . |
| 8 | If a fine is not enough , custody is said to be the only adequate penalty . |
| 9 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |
| 10 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 11 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 12 | A budget maximizing strategy is inconsistent with the aim of survival which is said to be the rational foundation for such a strategy ( Breton and Wintrobe 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Mr no doubt of what is said to be the divine preference for called three . |
| 14 | Where once lifetime employment was said to be the key factor behind high productivity levels , the need to reduce labour costs now means that ‘ Lifetime employment is becoming something of a curse to Japanese industries ’ ( FTW 12/3/83 ) . |
| 15 | Floating is said to be the perfect way of easing tensions and calming the mind . |
| 16 | Quicklime slaked in urine and laid on the wood while hot , will also stain it a red colour ; and this is said to be the general practice with Windsor chair manufacturers in the neighbourhood of London ’ . |
| 17 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 18 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 19 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 20 | The Mosher case is said to be the main reason . |
| 21 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 22 | For any symmetric section , one possibility being a section of the form of figure 9.14(a) with , the two iterative impedances are equal and the common impedance is said to be the characteristic impedance as stated earlier . |
| 23 | The introduction of an obligatory consignment of 25 per cent of farm produce from individual farms to the state was said to be the potential means of bankrupting private farmers , as it would be administered by the nomenklatura ( the local authorities ) . |
| 24 | Parker is said to be the self-confessed most Left wing man in Britain , an urban warrior with a mission . |
| 25 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 26 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 27 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 28 | Two groups implicated were said to be the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA — an alliance formed in 1989 which grouped the opposition parties , including the Umma party , with the SPLA ) and a hitherto unknown group , Ana al-Sudan ( " I am Sudan " ) . |
| 29 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |
| 30 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |