Example sentences of "[prep] what was said to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The row followed publication of what was said to be the Queen 's full message in The Sun newspaper . |
| 2 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 3 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |
| 4 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |
| 5 | They had so few experienced seamen on board that an English prisoner was released from his chains to take the helm of one vessel during what was said to be the worst storm for 20 years . |