Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duchy of Rome was the papacy 's ancient land to which the popes were deemed to have succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule and as a result of the Donation of Constantine . |
| 2 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 3 | In the following days , groups of soldiers were reported to have gone on the rampage in Kinshasa , looting shops and businesses . |
| 4 | In early April , thousands of Kurdish refugees , many dying from starvation , were reported to have massed along the Iraq-Iran border near Nowsud . |
| 5 | Many parties ( including Civic Forum and PAV ) had asked the Interior Ministry to screen their candidates for possible collaboration with the StB in the past , and 166 candidates were reported to have withdrawn by the eve of the elections . |
| 6 | The number of different visitors they were reported to have had during the last twelve months averaged 5.0 . |
| 7 | The UN , the US embassy in Khartoum and other foreign embassies were reported to have appealed to the government to halt the relocation programme . |
| 8 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , some 20,000 Serbs in the area were reported to have fled across the Croatian borders to the neighbouring autonomous province of Vojvodina , part of Serbia , in an effort to escape the fighting . |
| 10 | Mutinies were reported to have spread throughout the army since May 28-29 , when discontent in the ranks over pay and future prospects following an official threat of demobilization reached its peak . |
| 11 | At the presidential palace some ministers were said to have wept in the cabinet room . |
| 12 | The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy . |
| 13 | The first barbers at Rome , of Sicilian origin , were said to have arrived in the city in 300 BC , after which date the Romans were clean-shaven . |
| 14 | Some 120,000 Sierra Leonean refugees from the fighting were said to have fled across the Guinean border . |
| 15 | The future of Abe 's faction was unclear , for it contained many members who were thought to have joined in the belief that Abe was next in line for the office of Prime Minister . |
| 16 | They were thought to have gone to the course to search for lost golf balls . |
| 17 | Some 150 people were thought to have died in the Bougainville conflict before the government withdrew its forces from the island in June 1989 . |
| 18 | According to sources from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , 500,000 refugees were thought to have fled from the conflict in Liberia to the neighbouring countries — some 300,000 to Guinea , 120,000 to Côte d'Ivoire and 80,000 to Sierra Leone . |
| 19 | Some of the group whom were alleged to have participated in the August 1972 attempt to kill King Hassan ( for release of family of Gen. Oufkir see p. 38121 ) . |
| 20 | He was also bitterly denounced by former colleagues for having betrayed King 's memory by detailing instances of his colleague 's adultery , including incidents which were alleged to have occurred during the last night of King 's life . |
| 21 | And with all those people stacked up in X-ray , cheek by jowl , rubbing their short , white dressing gowns together , the plates were bound to have got into the wrong envelopes . |
| 22 | Both his father and his uncle had been Stickies , while several younger relatives were reputed to have broken with the official wing and gone over to the Provies . |
| 23 | They were known to have argued on the day of their deaths . |
| 24 | Primitive mammals were known to have existed throughout the ‘ age of reptiles ’ , but only after the dinosaurs had gone did they diversify into a wide range of specialized forms . |
| 25 | At least eight vessels were known to have sunk in the storm , they said . |
| 26 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 27 | Both were believed to have originated from the Soviet Union and had been smuggled through Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | They were believed to have sprung from the ranks of alienated youths who had espoused ultra-right-wing political causes . |
| 29 | All were believed to have belonged to the secret Civil Co-operation Bureau , whose activities were currently under investigation in South Africa [ see p. 37234 ] . |
| 30 | By the evening of Jan. 26 between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 barrels of oil were estimated to have poured into the Gulf , in what was thought to be the worst oil spillage in history [ for March 1989 Exxon Valdez spill see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |