Example sentences of "was said [to-vb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the minister of agriculture was said to have ruined the tomato crop by importing sterile seeds from Israel — because ( rumour had it ) his grandfather was Jewish . |
| 2 | Like the 41-foot tree trunk under which Hippocrates , the father of medicine , was said to have made the world 's first diagnoses and issued the first prescriptions . |
| 3 | Lamen Khalifa Fhimah , one of the two men named in the indictment , was said to have stored the explosives at Malta 's Luqa airport , where he was LAA station manager , and to have built the bomb with the second defendant , Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , Libya 's chief of airline security , hiding it in a Toshiba radio . |
| 4 | The latest victims included Jean Orsini , 52 , whose early career as a transatlantic drug-smuggler was said to have inspired the film The French Connection . |
| 5 | Even today , tourists may see the claw-marks on a stone where Big Ears was said to have appeared the last time this ceremony was performed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Mogadishu on Nov. 27 Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid , leader of the Somali National Alliance ( SNA ) which claimed control of two-thirds of the capital and most of southern Somalia , was said to have welcomed the US offer . |
| 8 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 9 | Three North Koreans were killed and two South Korean soldiers wounded after a heavily armed North Korean patrol was said to have infiltrated the DMZ and encountered a South Korean unit . |
| 10 | Waller was said to have told the police that his own car and his factory in Fencehouses , Co . |
| 11 | In the invitation letter , cited the same day on Radio Czechoslovakia , Klaus was said to have urged the Slovak leader to reconsider . |
| 12 | Reza Shah exiled one ayatollah who dared to criticize the Shah 's female relations for entering a shrine unveiled , Indeed , one of his military aides was said to have violated the sanctuary of the shrine by marching in and dragging the ayatollah out by his beard , so that the Shah could whip him for his lese-majeste . |
| 13 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 14 | Elizabeth Maxwell was said to have left the country after her husband 's death . |
| 15 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |