Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] be said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 2 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 3 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 4 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 5 | HyperSparc 's integer and floating point chips are said to be complete — the instruction cache unit will be finished within a week , the company says . |
| 6 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM-Hewlett-Packard effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a Trojan horse for proprietary technologies . |
| 7 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM/HP effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a trojan horse for proprietary technologies ( UX No 423 ) . |