Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] say [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 3 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 4 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 5 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 6 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 7 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 8 | Opposition estimates of casualties were said to be much higher . |
| 9 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some big bids were said to be arriving late in the day , pointing towards further gains on Monday if Wall Street continued to hold steady . |
| 12 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 13 | The imports were said to be stifling local recycling industries . |
| 14 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |
| 15 | By mid-February food stocks were said to be running low ; according to local reports , soldiers were sent to Matadi , the country 's main port , to unload ships and transport goods to the capital . |
| 16 | The 10-month-old Italians were said to be ‘ stable and doing as well as can be expected ’ at London 's Great Ormond Street children 's hospital . |
| 17 | Listening to her and Ferdinando discussing the latest onslaught — Piedmontese troops were said to be sweeping south throughout the summer — Wilson could hardly believe the enthusiasm displayed . |
| 18 | Other major weaknesses were said to be the emphasis on skilled employment , of either the apprenticed or respectable kind , and the individualist approach to the problem . |
| 19 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 20 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 21 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 22 | One of the cannon balls was said to be in the Hall in 1840 . |
| 23 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 24 | Software managers were said to be deciding which projects to kill at a Geneva meeting last week — one of those mentioned was the Network Application System . |
| 25 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 26 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 27 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 28 | The first enlistments to the Macedonian army were reported on April 13 , although Albanians were said to be refusing to obey the call-up . |
| 29 | Redundancy pay of one point four million pounds was said to be excessive . |
| 30 | This time , however , conservative , bourgeois , and intellectual circles were said to be voicing ‘ still carefully expressed fears about a certain legal insecurity in future ’ . |