Example sentences of "[was/were] say [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 5,000,000 marijuana plants were said to have been destroyed in the operation in an attempt to curb the flow of illegal drugs from the kingdom into South Africa . |
| 2 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 3 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 4 | Villagers were said to have been killed . |
| 5 | Heavy fighting was reported , and 150 people were said to have been killed [ see also p. 38134 ] . |
| 6 | Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day . |
| 7 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |
| 8 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 9 | The Irish girl 's mother is not among those charged following the Argentinian raids , in which pornographic videos showing young children were said to have been discovered . |
| 10 | The funds were said to have been laundered and deposited in foreign bank accounts . |
| 11 | Some rioters were said to have been shot , and hospital sources said that 40 people died on March 26 , and 19 on March 27 . |
| 12 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 13 | In one or two places railways were said to have been built to alleviate famine . |
| 14 | German authorities in late October confirmed a marked increase in cases involving the sale and smuggling of nuclear weapons material from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; more than 100 such cases were said to have been uncovered in 1992 compared with only 29 in 1991 . |
| 15 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 16 | Sixty-nine people were said to have been wounded . |
| 17 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 18 | Several close associates of FORD 's founders were said to have been arrested . |
| 19 | There were reports of atrocities by gunmen in Bardera , where 10 people were said to have been murdered at a feeding centre , and of intensified banditry at Kismayu port , ahead of the troops ' arrival . |
| 20 | However , price movements were said to have been exaggerated by a distinct lack of spare stock , with many market makers struggling to fill a series of programme and basket trades . |
| 21 | A nursing home where mentally-ill patients were said to have been left lying in wet beds because of a shortage of staff will NOT be allowed to re-open . |
| 22 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 23 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported from Kinshasa on Jan. 7 that there had been an abortive coup attempt the previous month , as a result of which a number of high-ranking officers were said to have been imprisoned . |
| 24 | The Algerian media gave prominent coverage to the army 's response to the incident , in which weapons were said to have been seized from the military by the armed group . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , press reports suggested that an explosion on March 10 at the principal mosque in Sana'a was the work of the Moslem Brotherhood , three of whose activists were said to have been executed summarily . |
| 26 | Several hundred armed fighters from Maldom Bada 's Hadjerai clan were arrested in the vicinity of his residence ( the palace of former President Hissène Habré ) and a number of them were said to have been executed . |
| 27 | US intelligence analysts were said to have been divided on the purpose and implications of Iran 's reported US$2,000 million annual military spending . |
| 28 | Negotiations were said to have been set up between the government and Gen. Jorge Ballerino , one of Pinochet 's close advisers , to negotiate terms . |
| 29 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 30 | Such voters were said to have been radicalized by the events of 1988 and by further civilian deaths at the hands of the army in Algiers in June 1991 [ see p. 38312 ] . |