Example sentences of "[adj] be said to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 2 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 3 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 4 | In general , materials that are carbon-based are said to be organic . |
| 5 | Squire Western is said to be modelled on Philip Bennet , and the heroine of Tom Jones on his daughter Ann . |
| 6 | In America the belligerent are said to be ‘ on the prod ’ , a reference to the cowboy employed in the stockyards to move cattle along with a pole tipped by a metal goad . |
| 7 | Many of the dead were said to be members of anti-guerrilla vigilante self-defence organisations . |
| 8 | Motorola Inc is said to be concerned that the move will fuel suggestions that the 88000 RISC chip is dead even though the company may be at least partially responsible for the shortfall in 88open 's funding . |