Example sentences of "[noun] were say [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 2 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 3 | For instance , in Eads v Williams ( 1854 ) 24 LJ Ch 531 , arbitrators fixing the rent of a mine were said to be entrusted , from their experience and observation , to form a judgment , and therefore not to need to examine witnesses . |
| 4 | Summaries of the report given to staff were said to be met ‘ with a stunned silence ’ . |
| 5 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 6 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 7 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 8 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 9 | Some of the stones were said to be stained with blood . |