Example sentences of "say [prep] be [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The major network evening news programmes were being watched by an estimated 50 — 60 million people and 65 per cent of people were said to be getting 100 per cent of their news from such programmes . |
| 3 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 4 | In 1986 it employed about 11,500 workers , and a year later , when its affairs were the subject of wide comment in the press , it was said to be employing 13,000 , or even 14,000 , workers . |
| 5 | They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service . |