Example sentences of "were said [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were said to be shaped like squid or octopuses , with many arms that could pluck men from ships , and even drag whole boats to the bottom of the sea . |
| 2 | Summaries of the report given to staff were said to be met ‘ with a stunned silence ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Its feathers were long , silken and of every imaginable colour , and were said to be infused with the glow of Paradise . |
| 5 | Of the old people 's homes , 56 per cent were said to be run by the Council , 6 per cent by a charity and 39 per cent were private . |
| 6 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 7 | Some of the stones were said to be stained with blood . |
| 8 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 9 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 12 | For instance , in Eads v Williams ( 1854 ) 24 LJ Ch 531 , arbitrators fixing the rent of a mine were said to be entrusted , from their experience and observation , to form a judgment , and therefore not to need to examine witnesses . |
| 13 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |