Example sentences of "who [be] said [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 2 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 5 | This evidently does not apply to God , who is said to be able ( although unlikely ) to create duplicate worlds . |
| 6 | His knowledge of Paris was confined to the underworld , but he did know that the bandit , Chicot , had a mistress who was said to be British . |