Example sentences of "said [to-vb] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was said to have had a sizeable effect . |
| 2 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 3 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 4 | The Golden Lion is said to have had a gallery but nothing now remains , though it has been referred to by word of mouth over many years . |
| 5 | But St Thomas Aquinas ( 1225–74 ) , the leading scholastic theologian , is said to have had a reaction against the spirit of his work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Immediately before this crucial engagement , Constantine is said to have had a vision — later reinforced by a prophetic dream — of a luminous cross suspended in the sky . |
| 8 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | His parents published a collection of his letters in 1919 , The Letters of Charles Sorley , which the Manchester Guardian thought ‘ contained the first mature impressions of a nature which was all vigour and radiance , a boy who may be said to have had a genius for truth ’ . |
| 11 | The Verona instrument is said to have had a soundboard label , now lost , giving the date 1777 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The woman is said to have had a relationship with Antonio Luciani , who is serving 20 years for drug offences . |
| 14 | Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year . |
| 15 | The police were said to have had no grounds for intervention unless the scene were shown to be the record of a real murder , so the posters dared the police to prove it real and the public to prove it not . |
| 16 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 17 | Cnut is also said to have had the relics of saints Botulf and Jurminus translated there , and a ditch dug round the abbey 's lands to protect it from interference . |