Example sentences of "were said by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the five who had no visitors were said by the people we interviewed to have had no relatives . |
| 2 | If , that is , ‘ It was a beautiful morning … ’ were said by someone capable of saying it , because in his day it was still possible , still not shopworn ? |
| 3 | The Tigers were said by the government to have blown up the defence minister , Ranjan Wijeratne , in March 1991 , and a general , Denzil Kobbekaduwa , in August 1992 . |
| 4 | In Nuclear Tests unilateral statements of the French authorities were said by the Court to have been made ‘ publicly and erga omnes ’ . |
| 5 | By contrast 85 per cent of the pupils were said by their teachers to have no experience of Example 14 , although it produced one of the highest success rates among the lowest third . |
| 6 | Between 1980 and 1982 twenty-seven councils were said by the Secretary of State to be either failing to implement the Act or employing tactics of delay . |
| 7 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 8 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 9 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 10 | Some 3,000,000 workers nationwide were said by the organizers to have responded to the call . |
| 11 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 12 | Trade ministers from the EC , Canada , Japan and the USA , at an informal meeting in Urabandai , Japan , on April 25 , were said by Japan 's International Trade and Industry Minister , Kozo Watanabe , to have agreed on the urgency of resolving the impasse , but also failed to announce any breakthrough . |
| 13 | Numerous Polisario members were said by Moroccan sources to have similarly defected after the appeal by King Hassan of Morocco in November 1988 for all Polisario members with " good intentions " to go to Morocco as their " clement and forgiving … homeland " . |
| 14 | Two hundred Iraqi prisoners-of-war were said by Iran to have been released on Oct. 29 ; according to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) more than 20,000 Iraqis were still held in Iran . |
| 15 | These words were said by Antoine Lavoisier in 1793 . |
| 16 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |