Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 2 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 3 | On admission , the child 's condition was said to be good , and she had fully recovered by the autumn . |
| 4 | They were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where their condition was said to be stable . |
| 5 | Mr Deacon , whose condition was said to be stable , had been transferred to Middlesbrough from Bishop Auckland General . |
| 6 | In November 1940 , for example , ‘ personal economic worries ’ in the light of the coming second war winter were said to be widespread and to have given rise to ‘ discontented and sceptical thoughts ’ . |
| 7 | The outlook was said to be hopeless , and they started the journey back to Wales . |
| 8 | The princess was said to be furious and Channel 4 came under fierce attack from MPs who said the drawings were highly insulting . |
| 9 | ‘ In particular , ’ the FT wrote , ‘ Smith 's management was said to be uncommunicative regarding the DIY business , although an analysts ’ visit next week is intended to set out future strategy . ’ |
| 10 | The boy was said to be calm after his 15-minute ordeal . |
| 11 | Last night PC Hall was said to be comfortable in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 12 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Listening to her and Ferdinando discussing the latest onslaught — Piedmontese troops were said to be sweeping south throughout the summer — Wilson could hardly believe the enthusiasm displayed . |
| 15 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 16 | In some cases registration was said to be complete when no one had been entered on lists at all . |
| 17 | Knox modestly demurred , but the meeting was said to be happy and humorous . |
| 18 | Investigations — fundoscopy , serum potassium , and chest radiography — varied substantially , up to one quarter of physicians rounded the blood pressure reading up to 10 mm Hg , and although risk factor intervention was said to be important , cholesterol measurement was done by as few as 27% of clinicians . |
| 19 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 20 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
| 21 | Redundancy pay of one point four million pounds was said to be excessive . |
| 22 | Our evidence was said to be flawed because : WE could be accused of setting up Marshall for an offence she would not have otherwise committed . |
| 23 | His condition last night was said to be poorly . |
| 24 | The Ardakkeans were said to be superhumanly strong and invulnerable to most life-threats . |
| 25 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |
| 26 | The characters were said to be stiff . |
| 27 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 28 | Popular activists were said to be resentful of the army takeover , expressing fears that the achievement of multiparty democracy might be further delayed . |
| 29 | However , whether the appointment was said to be express or by necessarily holding the debtor out with ostensible authority such an appointment must in practice be a very rare event . |
| 30 | Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was said to be willing to use the 25-year-old Londoner as bait for Queens Park Rangers ' , coveted striker Les Ferdinand . |