Example sentences of "[pron] be said [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | William may or may not have been a rogue and charlatan ; there are said to be many such in Panama , which as a crossroads for the modern world radiates a special magnetism for crews of ne'er-do-wells . |
2 | There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man 's life away . |
3 | In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win . |
4 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
5 | Apparently , however , WABI has been turned into a product and packaged , and there is said to be some kind of cross-productisation afoot with parent company Sun Microsystems Inc . |