Example sentences of "said to have be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 3 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 4 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 5 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 6 | On top of that , Taylor is said to have been determined from the outset to exert his authority and not to be overshadowed by superstars . |
| 7 | He is said to have been deprived of the royal household and nobles with the counsel and consent of all his people , and to have fled from Bamburgh with only a few companions , which would suggest an almost outright rejection . |
| 8 | The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles . |
| 9 | Major earthworks are often said to have been formed by the devil , and standing stones to have been thrown by him , a famous example being the Devil 's Arrows near Boroughbridge in Yorkshire . |
| 10 | Nine workmen were reportedly employed at the Luxeuil-les-Bains foundry and authorities are said to have been alerted by the fact that Hains got behind with his Social Security payments . |
| 11 | Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 12 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 13 | The overall increase of 2.1 per cent — compared with 2 per cent in grants from the Arts Council in England and Wales — was said to have been achieved at the expense of the SAC 's running costs , which will be limited to an increase of 1.5 per cent . |
| 14 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | PMMA 's biocompatibility is said to have been deduced from the fact that World War II fighter pilots were found to tolerate splinters of the polymer which had become embedded in their eyes following damage to their cockpits in aerial combat . |
| 17 | A man answering a description of Magee , who was knee-capped in Northern Ireland several years ago , was said to have been lagging behind the two terrorists as they ran from their gold-coloured Ford Granada getaway car , which they had abandoned in Charnwood Street , Derby , minutes after the shooting on Monday evening . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The alleged offence is said to have been committed in the Stack 's Leisure Park , Lochee , on 12 March . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Considered to be the most important Mafia informer since Tommaso Buscetta [ see p. 33792 ] , Mannoia 's decision to provide information was said to have been prompted by the murder in April of his younger brother , himself alleged to be a Mafia killer . |
| 22 | A coin of the Emperor Honorius ( AD 393–423 ) is said to have been found during the demolition of the castle in the 18th century , but it has now been lost . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | In addition , capital is said to have been spread among the people . |
| 25 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |
| 26 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 27 | It is for this reason that when a Kingdom has been taken by force of arms , it is said to have been taken by the sword . |
| 28 | The history of the building is said to have been associated with the Pilgrims travelling the old road , possibly to Canterbury to the shrine of Thomas Becket , or to that of St. William of Rochester . |
| 29 | 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 . |