Example sentences of "say to have [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day . |
| 2 | Shortly before he became bishop of Lindisfarne , Cuthbert is said to have been asked by Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby and daughter of Oswiu and Eanflaed , who would succeed her brother ( who had no son ) . |
| 3 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 4 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 5 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 6 | A younger Callisthenes quoted as an authority on Gaul by Ps. -Plutarch , De fluviis 6.1 ( Jacoby , no. 291 , 5 ) is said to have been born in southern Italy , that is , in territory under Roman control . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |