Example sentences of "[be] said [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 5 | Traditional corporate-planning theorists are said to ignore these facts , concluding that rational models lead to effective performance and that highly segmented organizations are really tightly coupled systems ( Weick , 1976 , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Two new humeri from Pakistan are said to retain ancestral characters similar to those seen in Proconsul and Kenyapithecus , with the proximal shaft curving laterally and anteriorly ( that is , convex laterally as in Old World monkeys ) , and a flat deltoid plane , whereas the distal articular surface has several derived great ape features . |
| 7 | Public expenditure in general and social expenditure in particular are said to undermine economic growth in a variety of major and minor inter-related ways . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century the actress Sarah Bernhardt , ‘ attracted by the Absolute , ’ as one guidebook puts it , built a chateau high on the cliff near its northernmost end , the Pointe des Poulains ( Foals ' Point ) , where the offshore rocks are said to resemble young horses galloping in the swaying navy-blue sea . |
| 9 | They are said to obey Fermi-Dirac statistics . |
| 10 | The absence of women and members of ethnic minorities and the continuing dominance of Oxford and Cambridge arts and classicist graduates amongst the senior civil service and the ‘ high fliers ’ are said to support these criticisms . |
| 11 | The pair are said to dislike each other intensely — only the lure of the big bucks they make keeps them together . |
| 12 | Technically these two conditions are said to yield so-called r and k selective circumstances respectively : r being the ‘ intrinsic rate of natural increase ’ and K the ‘ carrying capacity of an environment ’ . |
| 13 | The notion of shared space ‘ may be acceptable ’ for short loops or culs-de sac , but a ‘ cautious approach ’ is advised : for example , such layouts are said to need segregated play space so that the road will not be used as the main location for play . |
| 14 | They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts . |
| 15 | More than this , many constitutional authorities have become uneasy about the behaviour of governments in the light of the doctrines of mandate and the manifesto which are said to give effective power to party activists and extremists outside of parliament . |
| 16 | The three AA batteries are said to give 40 hours of continues operation , with a Lithium cell providing back-up when it is turned off . |
| 17 | Before examining the statistical evidence linking education and health to economic growth , it is useful to review briefly the ways in which these two services are said to facilitate economic growth . |
| 18 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 19 | There is ‘ classic ’ autism , and forms of mental handicap where the children are said to possess autistic tendencies . |
| 20 | Local councils now have the right to issue £10 fixed penalty tickets to people caught dropping litter , and to charge supermarkets for the return of abandoned shopping trolleys , of which 140,000 are said to disappear each year . |
| 21 | The two versions are said to convey different meanings , too . |
| 22 | Languages which use stress to mark lexical or grammatical differences are said to have free stress , i.e. it is not possible to predict where it will come , so there are no rules to follow . |
| 23 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |
| 24 | The DPS 7000 Model 400s , supporting up to 1,000 users , are housed in a small cabinet and are said to bring small systems price/performance advantages to the low-end of the GCOS 7 range . |
| 25 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 26 | Learning can , in a serviceable but imperfect definition , be said to include any change in an individual 's behaviour that is due to its experience . |
| 27 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 28 | No-one whose home floats several floors above the ground can be said to own that home , since the law of England and Wales ties ownership rights to the land ! |
| 29 | Others , such as Rizzi ( 1939 ) and Burnham ( 1941 ) , earlier argued that the bureaucracy could be said to own public property , albeit collectively , not individually . |
| 30 | As will be seen , the Newbolt Report attempts to construct a similar status for English : as " art " it will be said to transcend narrow state or class interests ; while , as " education " its function will be to refuse and actively combat the influence of majority cultures rather than be democratically responsible to them . |