Example sentences of "it is rumour that [art] " in BNC.

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1 At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands .
2 It is rumoured that the Sun has some excellent smears on a senior Labour Shadow minister , the Mirror on a Conservative Cabinet minister .
3 There are references to a dye house in the Norton area and it is rumoured that the mill was involved in some way with this .
4 The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey .
5 It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service .
6 It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows .
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