Example sentences of "said to have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 2 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 3 | Again , during the American War of Independence , their colonel is said to have given a long speech under heavy fire about Spartan discipline and the efficient military system of the Lacedaemonians . |
| 4 | The Smiths could be said to have done a final demolition job on punk rock '76 style . |
| 5 | Financially astute , Alice cultivated people like the financier , Sir Ernest Cassel [ q.v. ] , and is said to have realized a considerable sum by the sale of certain rubber shares presented to her by her royal lover . |
| 6 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 7 | Putting it crudely , a core of knowledge , such that if a student knew certain facts , he could be said to have reached a certain standard . |
| 8 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 9 | He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene . |
| 10 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 11 | Her work in the refectory of New Hall was brought before the formation of the collection , as a result of her residency at the college and it could be said to have struck a characteristic note of stringent inquiry for the collection . |
| 12 | The one idea that can be said to have made a firm impression from the psychoanalytic approach to dreaming is that these experiences come from within the mind , rather than from outside ( although in the case of Jung 's psychology even this is not clear ) . |
| 13 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 14 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 15 | So it was that when the Hundred Years War began , although both the French and the English kingdoms had particular naval objectives which they needed to further for military reasons , neither could be said to have possessed a proper navy . |
| 16 | New Lord Mayor of London Francis McWiliams is said to have played a key role in persuading Mr Heseltine to turn again . |
| 17 | Last year , Inland Revenue investigations into the affairs of 1.54pc of the nation 's farmers is said to have produced an additional £18m tax revenue . |
| 18 | However , of Truman , Eisenhower , Kennedy , Nixon , Ford and Carter , none could be said to have had a decisive impact on the direction of domestic policy . |
| 19 | Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year . |
| 20 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 21 | Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms . |
| 22 | The book was said to have had a sizeable effect . |
| 23 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 24 | The post-war boom 's revolution of rising expectations is said to have fostered an insatiable appetite for more , without concern for the question of ‘ who pays ? ’ |
| 25 | The Queen is said to have persuaded a reluctant Diana to go to Korea . |
| 26 | The Philippines government was said to have abandoned an earlier insistence on a five-year " terminal phase-out " period . |
| 27 | He is also said to have caught a huge carp there , and to commemorate this event he took a gold ring from his finger and wore it ever after as an earring . |
| 28 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 29 | He is said to have signed a sworn statement saying he spied on the couple alone together — and has sold the story to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 30 | They are said to have faked an armed robbery in New York in which insured jewellery was ‘ stolen ’ . |