Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [be] said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 200 and 500 miners are said to be inside the park , polluting it with mercury , and local politicians appear reluctant to remove them . |
| 2 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 3 | Three operations are said to be on the verge of bankruptcy because their claims — submitted through the ‘ one door ’ compensation office in Lerwick — have not been met . |
| 4 | 88110 machines are said to be ‘ on the way ’ , but no dates appear to have been set . |
| 5 | These three papers are said to be of the same standard as the six Law Society 's finals papers . |
| 6 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |
| 7 | The 40 devices were said to be krytrons — high-speed electronic switches used to detonate the conventional explosive charges in a nuclear warhead . |
| 8 | Those jellies whose natural frequency matches the frequency of the shakes will oscillate with the greatest amplitude — the two frequencies are said to be ‘ in resonance ’ . |
| 9 | Redundancy pay of one point four million pounds was said to be excessive . |
| 10 | The two witnesses are said to be a retired Swiss shopkeeper who had business dealings with Mr Ryan in the early 1970s , and a British businessman who had dealings with Mr Ryan in Libya . |
| 11 | FOUR suspects were said to be sheltering there ; as it turned out , they were not . |