Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A younger Callisthenes quoted as an authority on Gaul by Ps. -Plutarch , De fluviis 6.1 ( Jacoby , no. 291 , 5 ) is said to have been born in southern Italy , that is , in territory under Roman control . |
| 2 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |
| 3 | Moves to resolve differences on the CFE treaty were said also to have been encouraged by Soviet President Gorbachev who was reported to be keen to clear remaining obstacles in the way of a US-Soviet summit meeting [ see pp. 37945 ; 37979 ] . |
| 4 | However , Keenan , along with most other Western hostages , was believed to have been held by Islamic Jihad , an underground faction of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization . |
| 5 | After a year marked by sharp fluctuations in the price of gold , a floor at approximately $365 a troy ounce appeared to have been established by late December . |