Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] say [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 2 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The picture of the brutal rule of the Jews , for which Social Democracy was said to be preparing the way in Germany , provided the catalyst in the link-up of anti-Semitism and anti-Marxism . |
| 5 | Popular activists were said to be resentful of the army takeover , expressing fears that the achievement of multiparty democracy might be further delayed . |
| 6 | Traditionally the French nation was said to be divided on the basis of ‘ Three Cs ’ — the constitution , clericalism and class . |
| 7 | Some underwriters were said to be selling to hedge their commitment . |
| 8 | Such groups were said to be like the foreigners in the adjacent forces , for it was constantly repeated that many wanted to join us but failed because of some inadequacy . |
| 9 | For the subsidy of 1534 , thirty-nine noble families were assessed : their average income was said to be £921 , fifteen of them were assessed at over £1,000 and the highest income noted was £2,266 . |
| 10 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 11 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 12 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 13 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 14 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In short , the command of an East Indiaman was a very profitable situation , and accordingly the award of a good voyage was said to be |
| 17 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Caterling soon became shortened to ‘ Cat ’ and anyone adopting a particularly wicked smile was said to be ‘ grinning like a Cheshire Cat ’ . |
| 20 | The most important factor was said to be a high use of deputising services associated with higher rates of visiting and less use of giving advice by telephone . |
| 21 | There were reports also of intercommunal fighting at the southern port town of Kismayu , from which thousands of hungry civilians were said to be fleeing northwards . |
| 22 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The key outstanding issues were said to be the establishment of a single army , modalities of a ceasefire , and elections . |
| 25 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 26 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 27 | Some big bids were said to be arriving late in the day , pointing towards further gains on Monday if Wall Street continued to hold steady . |
| 28 | The 40 devices were said to be krytrons — high-speed electronic switches used to detonate the conventional explosive charges in a nuclear warhead . |
| 29 | Sustained performance was said to be 38 MFLOPS to 42 MFLOPS double precision . |
| 30 | If symptoms of disease occurred during any five day reintroduction then that particular food was said to be suspect and was temporarily omitted from the diet . |