Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] were said to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 2 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 7 | 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 . |