Example sentences of "[adj] are said [prep] [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 | 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 . |