Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] said to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's tonight said to be critical but stable . |
| 2 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 3 | It 's also said to be making Microsoft Mail interoperate with Unix E-Mail . |
| 4 | It is also said to be the largest UK supplier of Unix and open systems training , and ICL says it is the first company to receive accreditation from Unix International Inc for its portfolio of Unix courses . |
| 5 | It is also said to be fleur-de-lis of French heraldry . |
| 6 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |
| 7 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 8 | He is even said to be at liberty to play golf . |
| 9 | He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff . |
| 10 | He is commonly said to be mad , and may indeed be so , but his unreasoning rage is backed up by a keen and artistic mind . |