Example sentences of "were said [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 2 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 3 | The major network evening news programmes were being watched by an estimated 50 — 60 million people and 65 per cent of people were said to be getting 100 per cent of their news from such programmes . |
| 4 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 5 | The first enlistments to the Macedonian army were reported on April 13 , although Albanians were said to be refusing to obey the call-up . |
| 6 | Painting as an art form became news once more , and young artists were said to be rediscovering a Romantic tradition in English painting that encompassed landscape artists from Turner to Paul Nash , and visionaries from Blake to Stanley Spencer . |
| 7 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Workmen were said to be removing loads of so-called chips three times a day , and even to be building huts from waste timber in which to store chips they were unable to carry out at once . |
| 10 | The so called ‘ four wolves ’ — Greece , Albania , Serbia and Bulgaria — were said to be circling their prey , ready to pounce and rip the then unrecognised country to shreds . |
| 11 | Troops of the 1,500-strong Senegalese ECOMOG contingent were said to be holding off NPFL guerrillas attacking a strategic bridge 7 km north of central Monrovia . |
| 12 | Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went . |
| 13 | The imports were said to be stifling local recycling industries . |
| 14 | FOUR suspects were said to be sheltering there ; as it turned out , they were not . |
| 15 | Interest was also expressed over another site in the village , adjacent to the school , which East Hampshire District Council were said to be looking at with a view to a second affordable housing development . |
| 16 | Some underwriters were said to be selling to hedge their commitment . |
| 17 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 18 | In an effort to boost food production , office workers were reported to have been redeployed from Havana to farm jobs , and 20,000 Havana residents were said to be working shifts outside the city . |
| 19 | There were reports also of intercommunal fighting at the southern port town of Kismayu , from which thousands of hungry civilians were said to be fleeing northwards . |
| 20 | Toby was referring to one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament whom the sponsors were said to be paying £50,000 in appearance money , much to the disgust of most of the other professionals . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |
| 23 | Police were said to be planning to question the principal and teachers . |
| 24 | The heavier loads were being sent to Addis Ababa on camels by the desert route , where the Danakil , always dangerous , were said to be giving more trouble than usual . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |
| 27 | This time , however , conservative , bourgeois , and intellectual circles were said to be voicing ‘ still carefully expressed fears about a certain legal insecurity in future ’ . |
| 28 | In popularizing this slogan Labour was enormously aided by widespread resentment against ‘ profiteers ’ — a word universally used during the war to describe the conduct of shipowners , food wholesalers , arms contractors , landlords and all the other ‘ Brit-Huns ’ who were said to be exploiting wartime scarcities to line their own pockets while workers and soldiers loyally gave their all for the war effort . |
| 29 | Some big bids were said to be arriving late in the day , pointing towards further gains on Monday if Wall Street continued to hold steady . |
| 30 | 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 . |