Example sentences of "said to be [adj] [prep] " 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 | Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge . |
| 3 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |
| 4 | Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools . |
| 5 | Mrs Clark is said to be stable in the burns unit of Stoke Mandeville hospital tonight … and according to her son hoping to move back into a new caravan . |
| 6 | Mrs Clark is said to be stable in the burns unit of Stoke Mandeville hospital tonight … and according to her son hoping to move back into a new caravan . |
| 7 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 8 | His condition was later said to be stable in hospital . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | IBM is said to be late off the mark and may not get the chance to inject itself officially . |
| 11 | Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops . |
| 12 | The referential rigidity is said to be subject to a simple intuitive test . |
| 13 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 14 | Sponsors Dunlop are said to be unhappy with it and wanted it axed from the 1993 calendar . |
| 15 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 16 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 17 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 18 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 19 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 20 | 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 ’ ? |
| 21 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
| 22 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 23 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 24 | They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round . |
| 25 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 26 | He is said to be hyperactive by the nursery staff and seems to show some bizarre behaviour . |
| 27 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 28 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 29 | It is said to be invisible in its natural state but will form into semi-matter under certain conditions , rather like invisible moist air condensing into a filmy liquid on windows . |
| 30 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |