Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] said that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Perkins v Jeffrey [ 1915 ] , 5 KB 702 it was said that evidence could be called to prove a similar course of conduct towards other females where a defence of accident or mistake is put forward . |
| 2 | In R. v. Sang ( H.L. , 1979 ) it was said that evidence should not be excluded simply to show disapproval of improper police conduct . |
| 3 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 4 | For example , it was said that bulls could not distinguish the red of a matador 's cloak , but recent studies have shown that cattle can detect colours to a certain extent . |
| 5 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |
| 6 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |
| 7 | Throughout the past Five Nations series it was said that Ireland had reached rock-bottom , particularly against Wales and Scotland , and the only way they could go was up . |
| 8 | In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer . |
| 9 | When Geoffrey of Brittany was buried it was said that Philip had been forcibly prevented from throwing himself into the grave to join his friend . |
| 10 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 11 | It was said that Harry Short 's great strength was that he had never tried to imitate smarter trainers , that he played by his rules , was his own man , but even this was flattering him . |
| 12 | In a play on the official Nazi designation of Munich as ‘ Capital of the Movement ’ , it was now dubbed unofficially the ‘ Capital of the Counter-Movement ’ ; it was said that propaganda advocating the restoration of the monarchy was increasing , that it was no longer advisable to use the ‘ Heil Hitler ’ greeting or wear the Party arm-badge , and that ‘ sooner or later ’ a revolution could break out in Munich . |
| 13 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 14 | It was said that Horsley treated Hayling as the brilliant but wayward son he always wanted , but never had . |
| 15 | It was said that Dinah Arkwright made a finer Lady Macbeth than Mrs Siddons . |
| 16 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 17 | It was said that Mrs Rinehart was upset because she thought Mrs Hancock might inherit vast royalties from the tycoon 's ore resources . |
| 18 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 19 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 20 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 21 | During the Artois offensive , it was said that Pétain laid every gun himself . |
| 22 | During the previous debate , it was said that trains would be able to proceed from the north-west , with a bit of dodging about in Hampstead , to King 's Cross . |
| 23 | It was said that nature had endowed him with a penis some thirteen inches long and an insatiable sexual appetite — so much so that even in his teens his physical attributes were the delight of many local girls . |
| 24 | It was said that Stoddart never played better than in 1890 when representing the South against the North — he scored 115 out of 169 — as Attewell , Barnes , Briggs , and Peel bowled against him . |
| 25 | In Andersen Consulting v CHP Consulting Ltd. ( 1991 ) , a case concerning a dispute about maintenance of computer software by third parties , it was said that confidence is frequently used in connection with copyright material as it is : of course notorious that copyright protects only the expression of ideas and does not protect the idea itself |
| 26 | It was said that Wandsworth and Brixton gaols were relieved of their less violent offenders to join this service . |
| 27 | In November 1898 it was said that effigies representing ‘ Hooliganism ’ were burned on Guy Fawkes Night , although the new folk devil was destined for even more global notoriety . |
| 28 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 29 | It was said that Arkhina was among the most influential women of the Kha-Khan 's court , but she was too like her sister-in-law , his father 's wife , for him to be on good terms with her . |
| 30 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |