Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [was/were] said [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 2 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 3 | Opposition estimates of casualties were said to be much higher . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The protection of wildlife was said to be germane to both China 's economic and ethical development . |
| 6 | Baku , meanwhile , remained without special security measures or curfew restrictions , and gangs of looters were said to be attacking abandoned Armenian homes largely unchallenged by the sole detachment of 1,000 Interior Ministry troops who had arrived from Moscow on Jan. 14 . |
| 7 | In a survey of London 's trades in 1747 , the wages of milliners were said to be " poor and mean " : " Though a young woman can work neatly in all manner of Needle Work , yet she can not earn more than Five or Six Shillings [ 25-30p ] a week , out of which she is to find herself in board and lodging . " |
| 8 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 9 | ( In Chan Man-sin the thing in action was said to be the benefit of the contract with the bank . ) |
| 10 | His interest in witchcraft was said to be more than scholarly . |
| 11 | On the same day it was the opinion of every poll that Roy Jenkins had no chance at Hillhead and a slight fall in unemployment was said to be the herald of economic recovery . |
| 12 | Craig Lambrecht , a 16-year-old schoolboy , was badly wounded but his condition in hospital was said to be stable . |
| 13 | Summaries of the report given to staff were said to be met ‘ with a stunned silence ’ . |
| 14 | The fee for Blackman was said to be over £1,000 , and only £300 less than the existing Leeds record . |
| 15 | A fragment of plastic circuit board found at Lockerbie was said to be identical with the circuit boards used in timing devices seized with a quantity of explosives from two Libyans at Dakar airport in February 1988 . |
| 16 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |