Example sentences of "say to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This disappointment , coming at a time when he was already in a precarious state of health , is said to have accelerated Wasbrough 's death , which occurred 21 October 1781 . |
| 2 | Mr Delors is said to have threatened to have any deal involving concessions voted down in Brussels . |
| 3 | Mr Bradley , who is black , was said to have threatened to withdraw his support for RLA if Mr Ueberroth appointed to the board the mayor 's Latino rivals . |
| 4 | In rural areas UNIP was alleged to have exploited traditional structures and beliefs ; headmen were said to have threatened to expel villagers who supported the MMD , and ritual leaders apparently told villagers in some areas that they would become sick if they attended MMD rallies . |
| 5 | Senior officials including the Prime Minister , Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas , were said to have threatened to resign in protest at the President 's alleged unwillingness to deal with violence , including failing to authorize the arrest of suspected killers of more than 30 Yemen Socialist Party members . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new classical and baroque forms are often said to have arisen from the conscious departure in taste represented in the buildings of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 . |
| 8 | Since Wilson 's teachings were a principal inspiration for the Morgan school , the twentieth century science of genetics may be said to have arisen within his Weismannist programme for the integration of evolutionary and cytological theorizing ( Mayr , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | At the beginning of time it was said to have arisen from the primeval waters , the waters of Chaos . |
| 10 | The particulars of claim in actions against the Crown must specify the circumstances in which the Crown 's liability is said to have arisen and " as to the government department and officers of the Crown concerned " ( Ord 42 , r 4 ) . |
| 11 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 12 | Carbonate deposition on the Great Bahama Bank is said to have averaged half a metre per thousand years , even though most of the sediment is continuously swept into deeper water . |
| 13 | For , in its guise as the Parliamentary Labour Party , British Empirical Socialism can not be said to have intended , when governing the country , to have replaced private ownership of industry wholly by public ownership . |
| 14 | The driver being pursued , in a Toyota MR2 GT sports car allegedly stolen in Manchester , is said to have rammed four private cars and a police car . |
| 15 | The driver being pursued , driving a Toyota MR2 GT sports car allegedly stolen in Manchester , is said to have rammed four private cars and a police car . |
| 16 | Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalism system was to debauch the currency … |
| 17 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 18 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 19 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 20 | But Henry Skelton was also said to have suffered from depression … and even wrote his own obituary . |
| 21 | She is said to have suffered horrific hallucinations since her drink was spiked with the dance drug ecstasy at a friend 's 21st birthday party in Liverpool ten days ago . |
| 22 | The opposition Islamic Renaissance Party ( IRP ) , the Democratic Party and the Rastokhez ( Renaissance ) Movement were said to have organized the rallies . |
| 23 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 24 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 25 | In A.D. 318 , the then Bishop of Rome ( now known as Pope Sylvester ) is said to have met personally with eight Desposyni leaders — each of whom presided over a branch of the Church — at the Lateran Palace . |
| 26 | The growth of home ownership even among the less well off in Britain has been said to have created a ‘ corps of working-class capitalists , a new type of property-owning bourgeoisie … . ’ |
| 27 | P-E 's endeavours to become ‘ more international ’ were said to have progressed well . |
| 28 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 29 | These were The Cock and The Bull , and anecdotes arising out of their proximity and rivalry were said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ cock and bull story ’ . |
| 30 | Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase ‘ Bob 's Your Uncle ’ ? |