Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of those sentenced to death in Shiraz were reported to have been executed . |
| 2 | It was one of the most humiliating defeats in Olympic history , if not the most scandalous , since Bubka was rumoured to have been emasculated by the absence of his usual appearance money . |
| 3 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 4 | Kazakhstan was said to have been losing 150,000,000 roubles daily since May because of the difference between its fuel prices and those of Russia [ see also p. 38923 ] . |
| 5 | In 1909 the Hispanic station-master at Antofagasta in Chile was discovered to have been embezzling . |
| 6 | Earlier this year Jagger was said to have been spotted holidaying in Thailand with Carla — days after Jerry Hall had his third child . |
| 7 | On March 8 the " commercial " border with Argentina was reported to have been closed due to a " massive increase " in smuggling . |
| 8 | If Aethelwald and Aethelred do represent a revival of Deiran royalty , it may be no coincidence that Archbishop Aethelberht ( though at an unspecified date ) constructed a new great altar in the minster at York on the spot where Eadwine was said to have been baptized . |
| 9 | By the end of the month 775 former members of the StB were reported to have been dismissed . |
| 10 | Details of the visit remained subject to Israeli military censorship , but military exports to China were understood to have been discussed . |
| 11 | The Mozambican National Union and the Liberal and Democratic Party of Mozambique were reported to have been created in December . |
| 12 | Real , less cavalier than under Leo Beenhakker , tried to consolidate and break ; but the offside flag abused them and the initiative remained with Barcelona , who went ahead after Eusebio was judged to have been tripped inside the area . |
| 13 | He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok , 200 miles north of Moscow , where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held . |
| 14 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 15 | Thirdly , if you had refused , I would have told you I intended to point out to Kenamun that the door of the stall in which Merymose was found had been opened . |
| 16 | Yesterday he kept smiling — first when umpire David Shepherd reversed his decision over a double stumping attempt and soon after when Miandad was adjudged to have been caught and bowled by Chris Lewis . |
| 17 | These were mainly performed at the places where parts of the body of Osiris were reputed to have been found or buried , which are recorded in an inscription at the late temple of Hathor at Dendera — at Athribis ( heart ) , Busiris ( backbone ) , Memphis ( head ) , Abydos ( head ) and so on , some duplication being apparent . |
| 18 | The great magician Merlin was said to have been born of a union between an incubus and a nun ; happily Merlin used his other-worldly powers of wizardry for good , rather than evil . |
| 19 | Khafji was reported to have been retaken on Jan. 30 , and allied military briefings emphasised that this should be regarded principally as a victory for Saudi units in the coalition . |
| 20 | What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future . |
| 21 | Professor McDonald was reported to have been associated with major Canadian investigations since 1959 into the effects of asbestos on health . |
| 22 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 23 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 24 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , by late May the Armenian CP was reported to have been evicted from virtually all of its premises throughout the republic , and was operating out of three rooms in the Yerevan print works . |
| 26 | Mr Hargreaves was believed to have been carrying ice-climbing equipment . |
| 27 | At the same time , the governors of the troubled southern provinces of Bahr al-Ghazal and Equatoria were reported to have been replaced . |
| 28 | Mr Shaw was believed to have been waiting to collect fishbait near the shores of Belfast Lough at Quay Road , Newtownabbey as he did daily when a car pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire at point-blank range . |
| 29 | SOLITARY : The lodge at Balmoral to which Fergie was thought to have been banished |