Example sentences of "was said to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The plant was boiled in water and the resulting infusion was said to be an effectual diuretic . |
| 32 | It was said to be effective only if found without actually seeking it , and some people who came upon it used to say a prayer such as : |
| 33 | This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands . |
| 34 | But the second series of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors , whose ‘ main objective ’ was said to be ‘ to reduce the capital cost of reactor installation ’ , was far more disastrous . |
| 35 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 36 | At one stage the Hinkley Point site was said to be officially designated as ‘ remote ’ , because the number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small — about 1,500 . |
| 37 | Later when the prices soared he was said to be furious . |
| 38 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 39 | This was said to be ‘ the first Peruvian book of poetry that does not make tribute to a colonial aesthetic . ’ |
| 40 | It was said to be the site of the shrine of the goddess Mumba Devi or Maha Amba who gave her name to Bombay . |
| 41 | This hard , fast and unmelodic ‘ punk ’ music was said to be the new music of the skinheads . |
| 42 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 43 | In 1986 it employed about 11,500 workers , and a year later , when its affairs were the subject of wide comment in the press , it was said to be employing 13,000 , or even 14,000 , workers . |
| 44 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 45 | The Atkinson definition of ‘ a reasonable size ’ was said to be too vague , and based upon existing levels of practice , rather than any desirable ideal . |
| 46 | One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England . |
| 47 | Those of Buchan preferred black , or black with a touch of white on the udder , which was said to be a sign of a good milker . |
| 48 | It never gave large quantities of milk , but the milk was said to be richer than that of the well-known Suffolk Dun ( see Red Poll ) . |
| 49 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 50 | There were two old linebacked bulls and seven bull calves at the time to help fix the colour , which was not unlike that of the Longhorn , an English breed which had been widespread in eighteenth-century Ireland ( there was said to be a ‘ hornless Longhorn ’ in Cumberland in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 51 | The fee for Blackman was said to be over £1,000 , and only £300 less than the existing Leeds record . |
| 52 | The flames were put out in good time and the donkey was said to be fit for the final , against Preston North End . |
| 53 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 54 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 55 | In those days sermons at the Love Feast lasted 45–50 minutes and the town was said to be ‘ rich in piety , gifts and wealth ’ . |
| 56 | In the elucidation of disease and its treatment , while the patient was standing by , Coleman was said to be even more successful . |
| 57 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 58 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 59 | In the late 18th century a quarter of all Claude 's work was said to be in the possession of about fifty English Gentlemen ; of which Green saw four at Holker Hall . |
| 60 | This was said to be ‘ erring wildly on the cautious side . ’ |