Example sentences of "is [vb pp] to have [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Such liability is visited upon the dealer who is considered to have introduced the goods in question into the general stream of commerce .
2 Each centre which has received approval to offer a course leading to the Professional Certificate or the Professional Diploma is deemed to have accepted the HCIMA Regulations .
3 Generally the period for serving the counternotice will not be of the essence ( Davstone ( Holdings ) Ltd v Al-Rifai ( 1976 ) 32 P & CR 18 ) even where the clause also provides that in the absence of a counternotice the tenant is deemed to have agreed the rent specified in the landlord 's notice ( Mecca Leisure Ltd v Renown Investments ( Holdings ) Ltd ( 1984 ) 271 EG 989 ) .
4 To add further confusion to an already muddled picture , the SEI ( Secretaria Especial de Informatica ) is reported to have maintained the similarity examination and placed bureaucratic obstacles in the path of importers .
5 Planck is reported to have counselled the young Einstein in 1913 : ‘ As an older friend I must advise you against it ( the pursuit of the general theory of relativity ) , for in the first place you will not succeed ; and even if you do succeed no one will believe you . ’
6 New York private dealer Stephen Hahn is reported to have sold the priciest picture of the show — ‘ Bertele Chat Sauvage ’ , a rare , early oil by Jean Dubuffet .
7 The selection of Van Heerden , now a naturalised Frenchman , for France is reported to have whetted the appetite of Geldenhuys .
8 THE Scottish economy is expected to have outperformed the UK economy in 1992 and will continue to do so in 1993 , according to the latest edition of the Scottish Office 's Scottish Economic Bulletin .
9 Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat .
10 This policy is said to have cost the United States economy 8,700 jobs and $1,520 m in lost profits .
11 Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles .
12 Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land :
13 Although only fragments remain , Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes ; Conal Caernach who lived here is said to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ while serving in the Roman army .
14 Cnut is said to have defended the weak , exalted justice and suppressed injustice , and been a great friend of churchmen and a generous benefactor of churches .
15 She is said to have beaten the girl , torn up her clothes and locked her in a bedroom after finding nude pictures of her in Allen 's Manhattan flat .
16 The recognition in the 1820s of the new Latin-American republics as independent states is said to have increased the workload of the British foreign office by a half , while in the later decades of the nineteenth century commercial and economic diplomacy and the need to influence the new force of mass public opinion were making new and unprecedented demands .
17 The appearance of playback and CNC robots since 1977 is said to have begun the second generation of sophisticated units verging on being ‘ intelligent ’ .
18 Alasdair Thomson , a keeper on Dunecht Estate , Aberdeenshire , is said to have kept the substances in an unlocked outhouse on the estate .
19 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 .
20 With the free hand in Boiotia given her by Myronides ' victory at Oinophyta , Athens , exceptionally , is said to have supported the oligarchs there ( Old Oligarch = Ps.Xen .
21 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 .
22 These deposits , made by various people and companies , were under the control of the Hussein family ; Saddam 's half-brother , Barzan , is said to have run the operation .
23 Alison Wardley , 25 , who left her post last September , is said to have asked the princesses to be bridesmaids and invited the Duchess of York to the April wedding in Withington , Manchester .
24 In a few years , the Crown of Thorns starfish , Acanthaster planci , is said to have decimated the corals of the Great Barrier Reef and of many island groups .
25 Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence .
26 The question of prohibited degrees , within which marriage could not take place , also appears in the late seventh century , when bishop Leodegar of Autun is said to have attacked the marriage of Childeric II to his cousin Bilichild .
27 There is a multitude of stately homes and historic sites to visit , including Glastonbury Abbey and Tor , where Joseph of Arimathea is said to have buried the chalice used at the Last Supper ; and Montacute House , a very fine Elizabethan mansion with formal gardens .
28 He is said to have derogated the picture as ‘ just juggling about ’ and ‘ copying others ’ , and that the picture would not even serve as a good poster .
29 The American , Ronald Hendron , is said to have told the agents he could deliver Russian and Polish supplied uranium and atomic bomb triggers , as well as AK-47 rifles , grenade launchers , surface-to-air missiles and MiG jets .
30 Mr Lamont is said to have told the Premier : ‘ The game is over .
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