Example sentences of "is said [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 2 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 3 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 4 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 5 | The would-be acquirer is said to live within the city limits of Santa Clara , California . |
| 6 | It is said to work with the Tivoli Systems Inc management environment , HP VUE and IBM NetView . |
| 7 | The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site . |
| 8 | The land of a descent group is said to belong to the group as a whole and an outsider to the group does not have a right to cultivation inside the group territory when a member of the gens does so already . |
| 9 | Thus the claim that there are F-things is said to reduce to the claim that " x is an F " can be converted into a knowable proposition by substituting an appropriate object-term for x . |
| 10 | Excessive aluminium content is conducive to brain and bone damage and is said to contribute to the onset of Alzheimer 's disease , a form of dementia , at an older age ( Hodgkinson , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament . |
| 12 | This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament but the test is fictitious as Parliament frequently gives no thought to the question . |
| 13 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |