Example sentences of "were said " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 2 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 3 | Such groups were said to be like the foreigners in the adjacent forces , for it was constantly repeated that many wanted to join us but failed because of some inadequacy . |
| 4 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 5 | Furthermore , landlords and managing agents were said to use a range of ‘ sharp practices ’ to circumvent the law or to stop or reduce the likelihood of tenants taking legal action . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of prayers were said for me but for six weeks absolutely nothing happened . |
| 7 | This question provoked arguments in America about the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women , some of the contents of which were said to have had little value as literature . |
| 8 | He and nine accomplices were said to have hacked into a bank 's computer and gained access to the Treasury 's accounts . |
| 9 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 10 | Police released a list of survivors : Henry Wyllie , 20 , Helen Lawrie , 48 , and Paula Gaunt , 28 , were discharged from hospital after treatment ; Dawn Howbridge , 19 , and Martin Baptie , 19 , were said to be satisfactory in hospital . |
| 11 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 12 | The announcement of their sentences — seven and eight years respectively - has precipitated a series of clashes between students and members of the security forces , who were said to have used bayonets . |
| 13 | A TEACHER who was sacked because some of his lessons were said to be too sexually explicit has won £12,000 compensation for unfair dismissal . |
| 14 | Under the new management of Andrzeja Strejlaua , and with several team changes , they were said to have been much improved in narrowly losing a friendly in Spain last month . |
| 15 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 16 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 17 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 18 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 19 | Words were said . |
| 20 | The final prayers were said , a final hymn sung , and the blessing given . |
| 21 | Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went . |
| 22 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 23 | Bashir and an assistant named Mirahmad were said to have recruited Afghans from the border provinces of Badakshan and Kunduz who ‘ underwent a special training course in the armed opposition camps ’ . |
| 24 | Bashir and an assistant named Mirahmad were said to have recruited Afghans from the border provinces of Badakshan and Kunduz who ‘ underwent a special training course in the armed opposition camps ’ . |
| 25 | Many of the dead were said to be members of anti-guerrilla vigilante self-defence organisations . |
| 26 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |
| 27 | There was no confirmation of the claim , although there was no contact with the CBS and ABC TV correspondents , who were said to be among them . |
| 28 | Another five were said to be ‘ very poorly ’ after being transferred to a hospital specialising in infectious diseases . |
| 29 | Good nights were said . |
| 30 | All ‘ well-meaning ’ citizens were said to have recognized ‘ wholly , joyfully , and thankfully the superhuman greatness of the Führer and his work ’ , and , confronted with this ‘ greatness ’ , ‘ all pettiness and grumbling is silenced ’ . |