Example sentences of "[noun sg] said [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 2 | One special , coming up very early on the Great Western , with a clear line all the way , made over eighty miles an hour — which even the engineer said was impossible . |
| 3 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 4 | Mr Lang came under sustained pressure from opposition MPs at the Scottish Grand Committee to intervene to stop what one MP said was sheer gangsterism in Ayrshire . |
| 5 | What Sergeant said was true . |
| 6 | The sound of not-so-distant drums brought disharmony to Trinidad Crescent , Poole , Dorset , in what an environmental health officer said was one of the worst cases of noise pollution he had dealt with in 12 years . |