Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] said to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 2 | A uni-processor design , with a peak of 150 MIPS is said to be scalable to 300 MIPS ‘ over time . ’ |
| 3 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |
| 4 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 5 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |