Example sentences of "said to have [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
| 6 | However , price movements were said to have been exaggerated by a distinct lack of spare stock , with many market makers struggling to fill a series of programme and basket trades . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was also said to have been angered by a report by the US Export/Import Bank which criticized the structure of the Israeli economy and raised doubts about its ability to repay the debts it intended to take on to help Soviet immigrants . |
| 13 | She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London . |