Example sentences of "were said to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 32 | The cows were said to be no more than fair milkers , but their milk was particularly creamy . |
| 33 | Black was predominant because black was what people preferred , but the so-called ancient cattle of Wales included every conceivable colour : very bright orange-red , yellow dun ( dominant to black ) in Montgomery , blue around Llanfair Caereiniou ( blues were said to be better milkers than black , possibly because of some Shorthorn blood in the past ) , a recessive mousy colour popular in the Lleyn peninsula , white with coloured points , solid colours and pies and brindles , belts and linebacks . |
| 34 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |
| 35 | Other major weaknesses were said to be the emphasis on skilled employment , of either the apprenticed or respectable kind , and the individualist approach to the problem . |
| 36 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 37 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 38 | Mitterrand and Thatcher were said to be ‘ in harmony ’ over the EEC the day before France said it was opposed to flexible arrangements for the British contribution to the EEC . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Interest was also expressed over another site in the village , adjacent to the school , which East Hampshire District Council were said to be looking at with a view to a second affordable housing development . |
| 41 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 42 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 43 | It began as a protest against the alleged peremptory nature of the decision by the NCB to close some working coal mines which were said to be uneconomic . |
| 44 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 45 | Its feathers were long , silken and of every imaginable colour , and were said to be infused with the glow of Paradise . |
| 46 | Painting as an art form became news once more , and young artists were said to be rediscovering a Romantic tradition in English painting that encompassed landscape artists from Turner to Paul Nash , and visionaries from Blake to Stanley Spencer . |
| 47 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 48 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 49 | They were said to be ‘ OK but distressed and exhausted ’ . |
| 50 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 51 | All three were said to be in a critical condition last night . |
| 52 | Talks were said to be at an advanced stage and ‘ going well ’ . |
| 53 | By 1991 , the Levellers , then without a chart hit to their name , were said to be the fourth most bankable live band in the country . |
| 54 | In popularizing this slogan Labour was enormously aided by widespread resentment against ‘ profiteers ’ — a word universally used during the war to describe the conduct of shipowners , food wholesalers , arms contractors , landlords and all the other ‘ Brit-Huns ’ who were said to be exploiting wartime scarcities to line their own pockets while workers and soldiers loyally gave their all for the war effort . |
| 55 | Police were said to be planning to question the principal and teachers . |
| 56 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 57 | But there were said to be no signs of a break-in . |
| 58 | Summaries of the report given to staff were said to be met ‘ with a stunned silence ’ . |
| 59 | The so called ‘ four wolves ’ — Greece , Albania , Serbia and Bulgaria — were said to be circling their prey , ready to pounce and rip the then unrecognised country to shreds . |
| 60 | FOUR suspects were said to be sheltering there ; as it turned out , they were not . |