Example sentences of "[be] say to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The sons of Aelfwald , still in sanctuary in York minster , were persuaded in 791 to leave the church by what are said to have been false promises and then killed , presumably drowned , by Aethelred in Wonwaldremere . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Are we then , in fairness to smokers who seem to have become the target of the ‘ let's hang 'em brigade ’ , going to see treatment refused for all ailments which , could be said to have been self-inflicted ? |
| 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 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Christians as a whole however may be said to have been slow to appropriate the results of textual criticism and historical research . |
| 11 | It is the evaluators ' conclusion that the creation of such a framework may well be imminent , but through the period of the evaluation itself the existing arrangements can not be said to have been adequate . |
| 12 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with Public Windows Interface slated for May 19 , and there were said to have been long discussions over the wisdom of fusing the two together . |
| 15 | Vandals were said to have been responsible . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 20 | He is said to have been tall and handsome , a brave warrior and a good speaker . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The paper quotes Intel 's Dave House saying that the part will initially appear in the promised 66MHz version and a cheaper 60MHz version — Siemens AG is said to have been unable to drive the chip faster than 40MHz with cooling before it burned up . |
| 23 | Mehetabel , or ‘ Hetty ’ as she was generally known , received the same education as her brothers , and is said to have been able to read Greek at the age of eight . |
| 24 | He is said to have been convivial , widely knowledgeable , with a fertile imagination and a whimsical sense of humour . |
| 25 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 26 | A single example is said to have been sufficient to ransom a chief . |
| 27 | Eorcenwald , bishop of London , is said to have been privy to discussions between Theodore and Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) . |
| 28 | Greenway is said to have been self-confident , ‘ temperamental and quick to take offence ’ . |
| 29 | Anger against NTV is said to have been severe , with stories of NTV staff being attacked in public . |
| 30 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |