Example sentences of "[was/were] said [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 2 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 3 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 4 | Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse . |
| 5 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 6 | On Mr calculations for the defendant on the other hand the cost was said to be six hundred and twenty thousand three h three hundred pounds and thirty one pence . |
| 7 | Sustained performance was said to be 38 MFLOPS to 42 MFLOPS double precision . |
| 8 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 9 | By Nov. 24 the death toll was said to be 214 , with 300 seriously wounded . |
| 10 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |