Example sentences of "said to have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 11 Gamal Farghaly Haridi , who was said to have incited the recent disturbances in the Sanabu region [ see pp. 38935 ; 38983 ] , was arrested in a Cairo flat . |
| 2 | Buchheim , professor at Dorpat in the 1860s , is said to have rated the botanical characteristics of drug-containing plants as no more important to medicine than the case in which a surgeon carried his scalpels was to surgery . |
| 3 | A Buddhist monk named Wong Kwang is said to have originated the five principles that form the basis of taekwondo . |
| 4 | The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance . |
| 5 | The face of Helen of Troy is said to have launched a thousand ships , and the beauty of Cleopatra created havoc in the Roman Empire . |