Example sentences of "said to have [be] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orlando Azcué was also said to have been beaten by prison guards on at least three occasions . |
| 2 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 3 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 4 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |
| 5 | There are in existence some brief audio recordings of alleged two-way radio conversations between Blake and Bourke which are said to have been made in October 1966 . |
| 6 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 7 | On one occasion , Soraya saw a gynaecologist who was said to have been sent by Kim Roosevelt . |
| 8 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 9 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 10 | The murder was said to have been masterminded by Fabio Ravalli . |
| 11 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 12 | Perrier 's source of Vergeze in southern France is said to have been discovered by Hannibal in the year 218BC . |
| 13 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 14 | Kim 's appeal for economic assistance was said to have been met with advice from Li Peng on running a market-orientated economy . |
| 15 | The secret detention centre of Tazmamert in south-eastern Morocco is said to have been demolished in mid-September 1991 and its inmates moved to an undisclosed location . |
| 16 | Royal author Andrew Morton , whose best-seller Diana : Her True Story , is said to have been approved by Diana and many believe was the nail in the coffin of the royal marriage , said the princess may marry again . |
| 17 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 18 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 19 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 20 | The company 's strategies in the mid-range — where its RISC machines and AS/400s show great potential for growth and profitability — are said to have been constrained by concerns over self-impact . |
| 21 | She was said to have been suffering from depression and her death was ascribed to suicide . |
| 22 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |