Example sentences of "[was/were] said to have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 5,000,000 marijuana plants were said to have been destroyed in the operation in an attempt to curb the flow of illegal drugs from the kingdom into South Africa . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | German authorities in late October confirmed a marked increase in cases involving the sale and smuggling of nuclear weapons material from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; more than 100 such cases were said to have been uncovered in 1992 compared with only 29 in 1991 . |
| 4 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 5 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 6 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 7 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 8 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 9 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |