Example sentences of "said [to-vb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work . |
| 2 | Moreover , elements of the personality cult had attained far wider resonance and , as we have seen in earlier chapters , can be said to have affected the vast majority of the population , leaving completely untouched only sections still wholly anchored ideologically in left-wing philosophies of life , those totally alienated by the attacks on the Churches , and a few exceptional individuals among intellectuals and members of the upper bourgeoisie who despised the irrationality of the Führer cult , were entirely nauseated by the populist vulgarity of Nazism , and could see national disaster looming . |
| 3 | Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In short , the Declaration of Rights can be said to have confirmed the legal sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The office-holders and agencies which ran the new units — the elder , the clerk , the executive board , the assembly , the court — were elected by the peasants whom they served , but it is only with considerable reservation that volosti can be said to have increased the representative character of the imperial polity . |
| 10 | Nothing is known of Bishop Æthelric 's connections , but it could be that if he had relatives they were among Cnut 's supporters , or that as an individual he was prepared to back the king , for he is said to have enjoyed the royal favour . |
| 11 | The killing is said to have stunned the little town , 150 miles west of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 12 | In the invitation letter , cited the same day on Radio Czechoslovakia , Klaus was said to have urged the Slovak leader to reconsider . |
| 13 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |
| 14 | It is a computer-generated image based on the calligraphy of Kobo Daishi , the 9th century monk who is said to have invented the Japanese phonetic script . |
| 15 | Top right : Merlin the magician is said to have transported the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge to Salisbury Plain from County Kildare . |