Example sentences of "said to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbonate deposition on the Great Bahama Bank is said to have averaged half a metre per thousand years , even though most of the sediment is continuously swept into deeper water . |
| 2 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 3 | Neither can the Six be said to have achieved all that they set out to do . |
| 4 | " A good deal more patient organising , much strenuous effort and many further victories over the forces of organised wealth will be necessary before seamen can be said to have achieved that measure of justice which is his due " . |
| 5 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 6 | A second factor , the growth of the media , is said to have made both sides wary of possible bad publicity resulting from violence . |
| 7 | In this , the makers of the Revolution can be said to have played some part . |
| 8 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 9 | This question provoked arguments in America about the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women , some of the contents of which were said to have had little value as literature . |
| 10 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 11 | He had reportedly turned down an offer from Kaunda of the post of labour minister and a position on the central committee of UNIP — a decision which was said to have had much to do with the MMD's decision in April to choose him as its presidential candidate [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 12 | Disadvantages are the high pressure drop which occurs across the catalyst , although modern designs are said to have reduced this , and poisoning of the catalyst due to heavy metals such as lead , arsenic , zinc etc. and phosphorus compounds , which reduces the effectiveness of the catalyst and makes its useful service life , in any particular application , difficult to predict . |
| 13 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 14 | The technology is regarded as regressive by Taligent staff , and IBM 's insistence is said to have convinced several key employees to quit . |
| 15 | Braque had submitted some paintings to the Salon d'Automne in 1908 ( a few of the same paintings which he later showed at Kahnweiler 's ) , and Matisse , who was on the jury , is also said to have described these works as being composed of ‘ petits cubes ’ . |
| 16 | The September speech was said to have disappointed many in the Würzburg area because it provided no comforting words about the situation on the eastern Front . |
| 17 | ‘ So rigorous is he ( i.e. McGavran ) in dispelling romantic notions and false theological rationalisations of non-growth that he may be said to have de-mythologised this subject . |
| 18 | The establishment of the Harpur Trust in 1764 , with its provision of marriage portions for girls , and apprenticeships for boys was said to have brought many paupers to the town . |