Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] be say to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab press had also referred to a deal by which Iran was said to be funding the purchase by Sudan of Chinese weaponry worth US$300 million over two years . |
| 2 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 3 | Some claim to extrude ectoplasm , the substance out of which spirits are said to be made . |
| 4 | Whose penis was said to be as damn near as big as his guitar ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 7 | Mr Deacon , whose condition was said to be stable , had been transferred to Middlesbrough from Bishop Auckland General . |
| 8 | Robert Knolles , whose origins were said to be very humble , made a fortune out of war service in the 1350s and 1360s , and may be taken as typical of the successful captains with no inherited wealth who raised themselves by their military skills . |
| 9 | Chung Yong Hoo , the admiral whose wife was said to be involved , had retired before Mr Kim became president . |
| 10 | Cleese , whose fortune is said to be £10 million , has two daughters — 21-year-old daughter Cynthia , from his marriage to Connie , and eight-year-old Camilla from his second marriage . |