Example sentences of "say to have [verb] [art] [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 Moreover , elements of the personality cult had attained far wider resonance and , as we have seen in earlier chapters , can be said to have affected the vast majority of the population , leaving completely untouched only sections still wholly anchored ideologically in left-wing philosophies of life , those totally alienated by the attacks on the Churches , and a few exceptional individuals among intellectuals and members of the upper bourgeoisie who despised the irrationality of the Führer cult , were entirely nauseated by the populist vulgarity of Nazism , and could see national disaster looming .
8 Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own .
9 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 .
10 On July 11 Gamal Farghaly Haridi , who was said to have incited the recent disturbances in the Sanabu region [ see pp. 38935 ; 38983 ] , was arrested in a Cairo flat .
11 Buchheim , professor at Dorpat in the 1860s , is said to have rated the botanical characteristics of drug-containing plants as no more important to medicine than the case in which a surgeon carried his scalpels was to surgery .
12 In short , the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament .
13 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 .
14 He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene .
15 He is said to have prophesied the French Revolution , the Crimean War , two devastating world wars , the rise and fall of Hitler , and the rise and rise of the Arab wealth .
16 The office-holders and agencies which ran the new units — the elder , the clerk , the executive board , the assembly , the court — were elected by the peasants whom they served , but it is only with considerable reservation that volosti can be said to have increased the representative character of the imperial polity .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 ) .
20 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 .
21 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 ’ .
22 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 .
23 New Lord Mayor of London Francis McWiliams is said to have played a key role in persuading Mr Heseltine to turn again .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year .
27 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 ’ .
28 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 .
29 The book was said to have had a sizeable effect .
30 Nothing is known of Bishop Æthelric 's connections , but it could be that if he had relatives they were among Cnut 's supporters , or that as an individual he was prepared to back the king , for he is said to have enjoyed the royal favour .
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