Example sentences of "said [to-vb] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This policy is said to have cost the United States economy 8,700 jobs and $1,520 m in lost profits . |
| 2 | And new claims over the extent of that support are said to have made the president-elect furious . |
| 3 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons . |
| 4 | The graphemes themselves are individual letters or small groups of letters such as " b " , " ou " , and " ght " , and when we can identify these graphemes and then pronounce them together as the sound represented by /bo:t/ ( which rhymes with " port " ) , we can be said to have used the GPC rules . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |