Example sentences of "said to have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
2 | The opposition Islamic Renaissance Party ( IRP ) , the Democratic Party and the Rastokhez ( Renaissance ) Movement were said to have organized the rallies . |
3 | Intel , after all , is said to have lopped a year off its P5 ( 80586 ) design cycle just to compete with RISC chips . |
4 | Cranog Jones is said to have run a pipe from the garage through a specially- drilled hole in their bedroom wall . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Insofar as younger ministers believed that a Christian state should improve housing , lay drains or provide pensions , they could be said to have advocated a form of social gospel . |
8 | On 21 December , the fatal day , they were said to have placed the suitcase with its Air Malta tags among the luggage being loaded on to international flights from Luqa airport . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The peasants are said to have cut the outline of the giant in the chalk around his dead body . |
11 | The exhibition may be said to have motivated the adoption of Chinese art studies in western universities . |
12 | In the process Fanon might be said to have overestimated the extent to which , from subordination , it is possible to construct ‘ a politically conscious , unified , revolutionary Self , standing in unmitigated opposition to the oppressor ’ ( Problems , 30 ) . |
13 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
14 | Once a practice has become well established in terms of the relationship within or between different organs of the state , finding recognition in works of authority and by those involved in its operation , then it may be said to have reached the status of a convention . |
15 | Prince Edward is even said to have fired a shotgun over the head of a Daily Mirror photographer . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | This policy is said to have cost the United States economy 8,700 jobs and $1,520 m in lost profits . |
20 | The gunmen are said to have mistaken the cardinal 's car for that of a rival drug cartel . |
21 | Pro-FIS rhetoric emanating from preachers in certain city mosques was said to have influenced an electorate that contained a relatively high proportion of young and illiterate voters . |
22 | Its three stars and two stripes are said to have influenced the design for the American flag . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | For the West , the imaginary war could be said to have defined the era of Fordist capitalism . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Abbado , 56 , who is already said to have inherited the mantle of Toscanini , was chosen out of a large field which included such names as Lorin Maazel , Bernard Haitink , Seiji Ozawa , Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta . |
29 | POLICE were last night hunting a ‘ maniac ’ driver who is said to have caused a crash which killed five people , including two young children . |
30 | Whether or not these can be said to have caused an increase in poverty depends , of course , on the definition of poverty chosen , as has been described above . |