Example sentences of "say to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the most widely reported incidents , six people were killed by unknown gunmen as they waited in a taxi queue in Vosloorus township south of Johannesburg on May 1 , while nine other people were said to have been killed in other incidents the same day . |
| 2 | Originally , the Seychelles kestrels nested in holes in the mountain crags but are said to have been ousted from that habitat by barn owls which were introduced to try and control the rat population . |
| 3 | Shortly before he became bishop of Lindisfarne , Cuthbert is said to have been asked by Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby and daughter of Oswiu and Eanflaed , who would succeed her brother ( who had no son ) . |
| 4 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 5 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 6 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 7 | Historians say that Anerley Station was named after a villa owned by a Scots merchant and meaning ‘ Lonely ’ and the area is said to have been developed between 1853 and 1858 . |
| 8 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 11 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 13 | The attempt was said to have been led by former Minister of Territorial Administration Maj. Lamine Diabira ; eight other officers were reported to have been arrested . |
| 14 | German authorities in late October confirmed a marked increase in cases involving the sale and smuggling of nuclear weapons material from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; more than 100 such cases were said to have been uncovered in 1992 compared with only 29 in 1991 . |
| 15 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 16 | Up to the middle of the seventeenth century they overran only western Siberia where , for instance , the number of Kets is said to have been reduced by half . |
| 17 | As many as 10,000 political prisoners were said to have been confined in one corner of the island . |
| 18 | Nor do they know why for many years , almost to this day , footprints were to be found in a field near to the earthworks of the castle where a famous duel was said to have been fought between two brothers during the Civil War and where no seed would grow . |
| 19 | The kingdom is said to have been divided among three kings , Hun , Beonna and Aethelberht , of whom Aethelberht was still reigning in 794 ( ASC A , s.a. 792 ) ( which would give him a reign of forty-five years ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 21 | A Crown Court jury saw an extract from the film said to have been watched by two defendants a fortnight before the alleged murder attempt . |