Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] said to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , Wagaddon , publishers of the magazine , had its own legal bill , but this was said to be less than £35,000 . |
| 2 | This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands . |
| 3 | This was said to be ‘ the first Peruvian book of poetry that does not make tribute to a colonial aesthetic . ’ |
| 4 | This was said to be ‘ erring wildly on the cautious side . ’ |
| 5 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 6 | A 1986 U.S. study found an increased risk to expectant mothers , but this was said to be a small sample , which was followed by two further studies . |
| 7 | The Maréchal de Bassompierre , again a military man , after another brief embassy to London five years later , was given by Charles I " four diamonds set in a lozenge , and a great stone at the end " : this was said to be worth £7,000 and was perhaps the most valuable present ever given by any English ruler to a foreign diplomat . |
| 8 | The same day the USA was reported to have extended its food airlift to the town of Baidoa , where hundreds were said to be dying from starvation each day . |
| 9 | All three were said to be in a critical condition last night . |
| 10 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 11 | One of these was said to be a £5m loan to Raper 's master company , the Hong Kong and Netherlands based Gasco Group . |
| 12 | All were said to be members of the Jihad group behind the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 . |
| 13 | On July 29 a Croatian report cited figures from the Bosnian health centre that to date 8,018 had been killed in the fighting and 100,000 were said to be in " concentration camps " , reports of which remained unconfirmed . |
| 14 | Another five were said to be ‘ very poorly ’ after being transferred to a hospital specialising in infectious diseases . |
| 15 | The key to section 13 was said to be ‘ identification ’ not ‘ quality . ’ |
| 16 | The production of Le nozze di Figaro which Gründgens did earlier with Klemperer in 1931 was said to be politically very radical , yet Gründgens later became Intendant of Berlin 's Staatliches Schauspielhaus , with Goering 's support . |
| 17 | However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town . |
| 18 | Many of the dead were said to be members of anti-guerrilla vigilante self-defence organisations . |
| 19 | Both were said to be ‘ very happy ’ while pondering a name for the 7lb 3oz boy born on Friday night in the Wellington hospital , north-west London . |
| 20 | Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |