Example sentences of "said [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demonstrators held Daio responsible for the country 's economic difficulties which they said were a direct result of the structural adjustment programme Daio had agreed with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 2 | Carved ceilings and beams , stained-glass and rich drapes adorn the public rooms and the fifth floor terrace restaurant has quite breathtaking views — views Hemingway said were the best in Europe . |
| 3 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 4 | She op- , give us the umm after- , aftershave and deodorant which we said were the cheapest . |
| 5 | What he said was a vague approximation of what Malcolm Harris had written , and he did n't even give the right cue to George Birkitt , who spoke next . |
| 6 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 7 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 8 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 9 | Police say the man escaped across fields after what they said was a despicable attack . |
| 10 | When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand . |
| 11 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 12 | Intense artillery and mortar bombardments claimed 14 lives in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek in what Croatian officials said was the heaviest onslaught by Serbian forces since a ceasefire accord was signed last January . |
| 13 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 14 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 15 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 16 | In what Western experts said was the first recognition of the extent of Kremlin military activity , Lieutenant-General Anatoly Sidorov listed Korea , Egypt , Syria , Angola and Ethiopia as other countries where Soviet troops fought . |
| 17 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 18 | Tom King , the UK Defence Secretary , announced a range of sweeping cuts in the UK 's defence staff on July 9 , in line with what he said was the reduced defensive requirement after the ending of the Cold War . |
| 19 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 20 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 21 | A SHERIFF yesterday reported a solicitor to the Law Society of Scotland for what he said was the worst courtroom behaviour he had seen in 40 years . |
| 22 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 23 | one I said was the last but it . |
| 24 | There were conflicting accounts of clashes between Issa and Oromo groups in Djibouti and Ethiopia on July 9-15 ; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ' representative in Djibouti apologized to the government for what he said was an incorrect report from the UNHCR that as many as 250 people had been killed . |