Example sentences of "[det] be said to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are said to be getting cold feet . |
| 2 | This is said to be saving 1,000,000 bags per week — including 20,000 gallons of oil and 20 tonnes of plastic involved in their manufacture . |
| 3 | Hindus know the cosmic energy as the kundalini or serpent force , and this is said to be coiled around the base of the spine in every human being . |
| 4 | All of this is said to be made easier by ( and possibly to have been a partial consequence of ) the introduction of information technology . |
| 5 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 6 | There are many memories which are too painful , or too wicked , for the patient to remember without the aid of psychoanalysis , and these are said to be repressed . |
| 7 | Up to twenty thousand a day are being allowed to cross into Jordan from Iraq , but thousands more are said to be waiting just across the border . |