Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] said [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time .
2 A uni-processor design , with a peak of 150 MIPS is said to be scalable to 300 MIPS ‘ over time . ’
3 And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support .
4 The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic .
5 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 .
6 Its people were said to be ‘ more English and the English ’ .
7 Summaries of the report given to staff were said to be met ‘ with a stunned silence ’ .
8 So the two works are said to be both like one another and unlike .
9 When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition .
10 Some $350m is said to be in Swiss banks .
11 The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence .
12 Thus , with the help of a dummy variable t' for clarity , a nonperiodic signal may be represented by Now the pulsatances of the nth and ( n + 1 ) th harmonics are and so Hence or where , dropping the primes , since they are no longer necessary for clarity , The function G ( ο); giving the amplitude distribution in the equivalent continuous spectrum of the nonperiodic function F(t) is said to be the Fourier transform of F(t).
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