Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] said [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 2 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 3 | Alexander was said to be the only mortal Bucephalus would ever respect and the only one who was successful in saddling and mounting him ; with all other men , Bucephalus had sensed their greed and weakness and had spurned them . |
| 4 | And Bourne was said to be ‘ a well-built and pleasant market town , which has doubled its population during the last forty years ’ . |
| 5 | Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse . |
| 6 | His widow Jane was said to be ‘ inconsolable ’ as she was being comforted by friends . |
| 7 | Maastricht was said to be a Dutch cheese or the European Court . |
| 8 | Mr Hussey was said to be defending himself aggressively . |
| 9 | After a two-hour operation to her face Vicky was said to be ‘ stable ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 10 | In Bonn , Chancellor Helmut Kohl was said to be ‘ deeply shocked over the brutal repression of the justified and peaceful protests ’ . |
| 11 | Traditionally , Canada was said to be bound by the Canadian Pacific 's ribbon of steel . |
| 12 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
| 13 | The Ardakkeans were said to be superhumanly strong and invulnerable to most life-threats . |
| 14 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 15 | Lithuania and Estonia were said to be considering the idea of transitional currencies ; in May Lithuania introduced coupons in 200 and 500 denominations , paid as a percentage of wages and used for goods in short supply . |
| 16 | The man most concerned to limit the publicity given to the Memorie was said to be Bernard Berenson . |
| 17 | Yesterday Mr Moore was said to be away on business until the end of next week . |
| 18 | Mr Rafsanjani was said to be supported by the so-called moderate right . |
| 19 | Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was said to be willing to use the 25-year-old Londoner as bait for Queens Park Rangers ' , coveted striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 20 | After the Polish invasion of April 1919 , Belorussia was said to be historically an inalienable part of the Polish Commonwealth . |
| 21 | Castro was said to be ’ embarrassed' by all but the 14 June expedition against Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo , which was the only one in 1959 launched on Cuban government initiative with , it should be noted , the support of president Rómulo Betancourt ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 393 ; Martz and Myers : 1977 , p. 337 ) . |
| 22 | Trade and Industry Secretary Michael Heseltine was said to be particularly concerned about the adverse impact Dan-Air 's closure would have on services at Gatwick , where it was the largest operator with 24.3pc of the slots . |
| 23 | Mitterrand and Thatcher were said to be ‘ in harmony ’ over the EEC the day before France said it was opposed to flexible arrangements for the British contribution to the EEC . |
| 24 | As of late February Monrovia was said to be calm , with emergency food and other supplies flowing in , and some shops reopening , although relief agencies emphasised that people were still dying from starvation . |
| 25 | The Arab press had also referred to a deal by which Iran was said to be funding the purchase by Sudan of Chinese weaponry worth US$300 million over two years . |
| 26 | In the elucidation of disease and its treatment , while the patient was standing by , Coleman was said to be even more successful . |
| 27 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 28 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 29 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 30 | Oakley was said to be sceptical that the peace could hold . |