Example sentences of "[am/are] said by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all in order because the proceedings start with a service conducted by the Anglican rural dean , at which the reading is by a member of the Free Churches , and where prayers are said by a Jesuit . |
| 2 | Heroin labs are said by Afghans to be in the Chagool mountains , operated by fundamentalist mujahedin commanders belonging to the Hizbe Islami . |
| 3 | The morning rays are said by yogis to be highly charged with prana ( life-force ) and are the most beneficial to health . |
| 4 | And molecules like this , amino acids are other examples , are said by structural chemists to have a ‘ chirality ’ , from the Greek word for hand . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , reports that Novell is planning a multi-server version of its IPX software router in order to provide companies with a low-cost alternative to software routers are said by the company to be ‘ very misleading ’ . |
| 6 | Their options business , normally for underlying amounts of DM10m-20m a day , are said by others to have jumped to ten times that amount . |
| 7 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 8 | A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try . |
| 9 | Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric . |
| 10 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 11 | An instance is that ‘ platoons ’ are said by the author to disperse to regular or random lengthy headways . |