Example sentences of "[be] said [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In local government developments such as compulsory , competitive tendering , or the introduction of GCSE in schools , have been said to undermine morale . |
| 2 | ( Johnnie 's impotence has been said to reflect Fugard 's own frustration at not being able to change South African society through his writings . ) |
| 3 | For our purposes , however , enough has been said to describe how the institutional setting can cause expenditure patterns of local authorities to deviate in the direction indicated by empirical work of Gramlich . |
| 4 | At that time , the building could have been said to typify the dereliction of the whole London docks area . |
| 5 | The complexity of pre-trial procedure , particularly in the High Court , has been said to act not only as a deterrent to all but the most determined litigant , but also as a weapon for the recalcitrant defendant who may manipulate it so as to place the pressure of delay upon the plaintiff . |
| 6 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 7 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 8 | Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's . |
| 9 | Its characters have been said to sound English . |
| 10 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 11 | It has been said to comprise a central group — Alain Robbe-Grillet , Nathalie Sarraute , Claude Simon , Michel Butor , Robert Pinget — with Marguerite Duras and even Samuel Beckett as ‘ co-opted ’ members . |
| 12 | Since St Petersburg University also employed Konstantin Kavelin ( the prime advocate of conferring land as well as liberty on the peasants ) , Vladimir Spasovich ( an enthusiastic Polish nationalist ) , Aleksandr Pypin ( a cousin of the trenchant journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii ) and Boris Utin ( a former associate of Mikhail Petrashevskii ) , it could have been said to represent almost all the forward-looking opinions of the day . |
| 13 | In a positive sense active citizenship has been said to involve voluntary work , local initiative and payment of one 's civic dues in service , not just cash . |
| 14 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 15 | One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty . |
| 16 | His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films . |
| 17 | In spite of specialization , the general outline of the discovery of many recent drugs is remarkably similar and indeed has been said to follow a text-book pattern . |
| 18 | In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) . |
| 19 | If what has just been said gives an impression that interviews can be almost infinite in their variety , perhaps this is not a bad thing . |
| 20 | But enough has been said to show that the world of vernacular literature in 1200 was a much larger , more diverse , more interesting world than in 1100 . |
| 21 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 22 | Sufficient has already been said to suggest that Britain 's economic and financial ties with the EEC are much more complex than those of a simple trading relationship , even one which for a variety of reasons involves considerable net outflows of cash . |
| 23 | Sufficient has been said to suggest that there may be good reason to utilize intergovernmental grants and that , in order to choose the appropriate grant , it is necessary to consider both the objective and the likely response of the local authority to the grant . |
| 24 | Much has already been said to help you evaluate the importance of each symptom . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation . |
| 26 | It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged . |
| 27 | There is a large number of further possible conceptions , but I hope enough has been said to indicate that a question such as ‘ Do you believe in God ? ’ may not be easy for the respondent to answer , and that , without further information , the answer is likely to be difficult for the researcher to interpret . |
| 28 | Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British . |
| 29 | The above examples of intergovernmental grants are by no means exhaustive , but enough has been said to indicate that , when the form of grant aid is specified , the nature of the amendment of the budget line for local authorities is specified . |
| 30 | In the rent review context this has been said to mean that the court will tell surveyors what to value , but not how to value it : Compton Group Ltd v Estates Gazette Ltd ( 1977 ) 244 EG 799 . |