Example sentences of "say to have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surgeon was said to have been present during their operations at Wrexham Maelor Hospital . |
| 2 | As Chief Secretary of the Treasury from November 1990 he is said to have been crucial in ensuring a record settlement for the Arts Council for 1992/93 . |
| 3 | Late in his reign , the Shah was even said to have been impressed by the liberalizing efforts of King Juan Carlos in Spain . |
| 4 | Ministers are said to have been impressed by what they regard as the success of privately-run prisons and want to extend the scheme to other parts of the criminal justice system . |
| 5 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 6 | In fact Mr Major , who is said to have been delighted with the way Mr Waldegrave introduced the health reforms , has put him in charge of implementing the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 7 | Freud can not be said to have been unaware of the variability of human nature in different societies which have other economic arrangements and different cultural aims from those of Europe and America . |
| 8 | Now sexism is so fundamental an evil that it becomes very difficult for anyone who has grasped this to envisage that God could be said to have been involved with human history . |
| 9 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 10 | By the late fourth century , in fact , the Saxons were said to have been involved in raids which had previously been ascribed to the Franks . |
| 11 | By way of abbreviation of what is stated by the independent conditionals in ( 5 ) , cc can be said to have necessitated e , and e can be said to have been necessary to cc . |
| 12 | Although the trial judge in Jones was said to have been wrong in saying that the police need not have informed her of the presence of a solicitor called by another person , the admission of a statement made by Jones in the absence of a solicitor was upheld . |
| 13 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 14 | Eorcenwald , bishop of London , is said to have been privy to discussions between Theodore and Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) . |
| 15 | Sub-commissioner José Amedo and Inspector Michel Domi nguez had participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación ( GAL ) , which were said to have been responsible for the assassination of 22 ETA leaders and alleged sympathizers in Basque areas of southern France between December 1983 and July 1986 . |
| 16 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 17 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 18 | In Essex there were to remain in the Forest only the half hundred of Waltham and parts of the hundreds of Ongar and Becontree , said to have been afforested before 1154 , and the royal demesnes of Havering , Hatfield , Chelmsford and Kingswood near Colchester . |