Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was said to be upset because she was too old to use the centre where the party was held in Whitley Bay . |
| 2 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 3 | She was said to be callous , selfish , irresponsible . |
| 4 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 5 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 6 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 7 | In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic . |
| 8 | It was said to be effective only if found without actually seeking it , and some people who came upon it used to say a prayer such as : |
| 9 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 10 | In 1717 he began buying land in Kent and the city of London , which eventually placed the family among the largest landowners in the county ; it was said to be possible to walk for a day in north-west Kent without leaving Page property . |
| 11 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 12 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |
| 13 | For instance , one woman who was described by all as extremely jealous of her husband ( he was said to be innocent ) had an angry liver , and she was always quarrelling . |
| 14 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 15 | Later when the prices soared he was said to be furious . |
| 16 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 17 | He was said to be level-headed and unlikely to be affected by a few fancy words . |
| 18 | Last night he was said to be comfortable . |
| 19 | Mr Morton was rushed to Middlesbrough General Hospital 's burns unit where last night he was said to be comfortable ’ . |
| 20 | He was said to be comfortable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night . |
| 21 | He was said to be comfortable in Leeds General Infirmary with facial injuries and fractures . |
| 22 | Last night he was said to be comfortable in the West Highland Hospital , Oban . |
| 23 | He was said to be super-strong and super-virile , invulnerable to mortal harm , and had occupied the throne for more than two centuries . |