Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] say [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Include a visit to Hound Tor with the fantastic rocky shapes said to be dogs converted to stone by witches . |
| 2 | In meetings with UK Prime Minister John Major and French President Mitterrand Sheikh al Sabah also discussed financial matters and raised the question of the 2,242 Kuwaiti citizens said to be still held by Iraq . |
| 3 | It is offering unlimited loans said to be from Global Finance Corporation , of Delaware , America . |
| 4 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 5 | Roh 's entourage included Cabinet ministers , diplomats and the heads of 20 major companies said to be interested in joint ventures in the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | In contrast to this is the " new " demand for temporary workers said to be experienced , or likely to be experienced on an increasing scale , by enterprises in the manufacturing sector . |
| 7 | In his Sept. 11 radio broadcast Iliescu also strongly condemned proposals said to be emanating from a joint Hungarian-Polish-Czechoslovakian working group for the economic integration of Transylvania ( home of Romania 's ethnic Hungarian minority ) into an economic space to be created by the three countries . |
| 8 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |
| 9 | But that is all : the Act fails to incorporate other safeguards said to be embodied in the pre-statutory warrant procedures . |
| 10 | However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full . |
| 11 | One of the older Gnomes , who had a face like a wrinkled nutcracker and bright twinkly eyes , asked would a bit of magic be of any use anywhere , because was n't magic a powerful thing when you had a difficulty , and the other Gnomes said to be sure it was . |
| 12 | Presumably each side would want to state its position about the quality/condition of the sample and the evidence would presumably be about other samples said to be of various qualities or conditions . |