Example sentences of "[was/were] say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 2 | The Ardakkeans were said to be superhumanly strong and invulnerable to most life-threats . |
| 3 | The two most seriously hurt , Bronwen Vickers , 33 , who had a leg amputated , and Stephen Clague , 21 , who suffered arm , elbow and hip injuries , were said to be stable . |
| 4 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 5 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 6 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 7 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 8 | Black was predominant because black was what people preferred , but the so-called ancient cattle of Wales included every conceivable colour : very bright orange-red , yellow dun ( dominant to black ) in Montgomery , blue around Llanfair Caereiniou ( blues were said to be better milkers than black , possibly because of some Shorthorn blood in the past ) , a recessive mousy colour popular in the Lleyn peninsula , white with coloured points , solid colours and pies and brindles , belts and linebacks . |
| 9 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 10 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 11 | It began as a protest against the alleged peremptory nature of the decision by the NCB to close some working coal mines which were said to be uneconomic . |
| 12 | The people were said to be lazy , their manner of living rustic . |
| 13 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 14 | Up to a dozen Tory MPs , alarmed at the threat of the loss of concessionary fares and line closures in the wake of privatisation , were said to be ready to defy the Government . |
| 15 | Popular activists were said to be resentful of the army takeover , expressing fears that the achievement of multiparty democracy might be further delayed . |
| 16 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 17 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 18 | For example , the Variscan orogenic cycles started in the Paleozoic era were said to be responsible for the mountain chains of North America , Europe and Africa . |
| 19 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 20 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 21 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 22 | The Nigerian federal authorities were said to be concerned that the rioting could lead to polarization of the country 's Christian and Moslem areas , threatening plans to install an elected civilian government in 1992 . |
| 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 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 25 | Earlier the court had been shown a quantity of bricks and stones some of which were said to be bloodstained , and a heavy iron bar . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In November 1940 , for example , ‘ personal economic worries ’ in the light of the coming second war winter were said to be widespread and to have given rise to ‘ discontented and sceptical thoughts ’ . |
| 28 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 29 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 30 | 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 . |