Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] said that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that a massacre had followed the surrender of General Wheeler at Cawnpore and that delicate English girls had been stripped naked and dragged through the streets of Delhi . |
| 2 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 3 | In fact , it was said that a plant of balm In the garden would ensure that the bees never left their hive to set up home elsewhere , and since sugar was highly priced in medieval days , honey carried a considerable premium . |
| 4 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 5 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 6 | It was said that the act had to be directed or aimed at the victim . |
| 7 | In a more recent case it was said that the evidence called must be commensurate with the seriousness of the allegations made ( per Butler-Sloss LJ in R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 8 | It was said that the Kahanamokus were the descendants of Kamehameha the Great , but Duke inherited his name from his father , a Honolulu police captain who was named after the then Duke of Edinburgh following his visit to the Islands in 1869 . |
| 9 | In 1900 a dispute arose because it was said that the Taff Vale Railway Company had victimized a trade unionist who led a wage demand . |
| 10 | It was said that the planners threatened all of this by placing obstacles in the way of local people in their efforts to fulfil their lives . |
| 11 | The only case to apply this approach to the running of covenants is Boyer v Warbey [ 1953 ] 1 QB 234 , in which Denning LJ stated : " I know that before the Judicature Act 1873 , it was said that the doctrine of covenants running with the land only applied to covenants under seal and not to agreements under hand … |
| 12 | From the same area — around Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian alps — it was said that the mood was getting ‘ noticeably worse by the day ’ on account of the provisioning difficulties . |
| 13 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 14 | Because a mosque stood next door it was said that the cinema had been rejected by Allah as an unworthy neighbour . |
| 15 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 16 | In 1912 it was said that the rail freight yards of the city handled 112,000 tons of freight per day . |
| 17 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |
| 18 | Later in the day it was said that the Germans had refused to issue any more food parcels for the rest of the week . |
| 19 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 20 | By the time Coleman died it was said that the number of veterinary surgeons practising in the three kingdoms fell little short of 1,000 . |
| 21 | It was said that the report had advocated crude measures for dealing with a complex problem , and that not enough was known about the patterns of library use and the effects of browsing , literature obsolescence , or other factors , to put the future of university libraries at risk by wholesale withdrawals from stock at this stage of their development . |
| 22 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 23 | In particular , it was said that the employer was thereby saving on royalties payable to the patentee or licensee of alternative components ; the valve reduced processing costs and disposals of scrap ; output had increased ; and the frequency of employee injury had declined so as to reduce absences from work and claims for compensation . |
| 24 | It was said that the poet Shelley had been here to sail paper boats . |
| 25 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 26 | In South London , for example , it was said that the gangs wore ‘ boots toe-plated with iron , and calculated to kill easily ’ . |
| 27 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 28 | Pork was the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries and it was said that the peasants of Britain lived on bread , bacon and beer . |
| 29 | It was said that the matter came to light when the stockmarket crash of October 1987 left the advisers facing large losses . |