Example sentences of "be say to have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 2 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 3 | All are said to have been renewed without seeking a competition for tenders or a dispensation from the EC required under EC Supplies Directive 77/62 . |
| 4 | Company fleet buyers are said to have been holding back , pondering the result of a value added tax case that removed obstacles in the way of offering cash rather than the car perk . |
| 5 | There are in existence some brief audio recordings of alleged two-way radio conversations between Blake and Bourke which are said to have been made in October 1966 . |
| 6 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 9 | The IRFU president Tony Browne and the chairman of the IRFU amateur subcommittee , Roly Meates , are said to have been very sympathetic towards the players . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In an incident in Cetekovac in eastern Croatia , more than 20 are said to have been killed , including unarmed civilians , by Serbian insurgents who attacked the village on 4 September 1991 ; an old man described to a visiting journalist how the insurgents had forced him and others to stand in line and shot dead one villager who tried to flee . |
| 12 | I have contended that the success , and for that matter failure , of blacks in sport has nothing to do with so-called physical characteristics which they are all meant to share , nor with psychological predispositions which they clearly do not have , and certainly not with physical inheritances which are said to have been somehow transmitted genetically from their slave forefathers . |
| 13 | The company 's strategies in the mid-range — where its RISC machines and AS/400s show great potential for growth and profitability — are said to have been constrained by concerns over self-impact . |
| 14 | Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 15 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and are said to have been encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nine workmen were reportedly employed at the Luxeuil-les-Bains foundry and authorities are said to have been alerted by the fact that Hains got behind with his Social Security payments . |
| 19 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |
| 20 | But those fertile cultural fields which are said to have been generated and sustained by this vitalizing flow of truly native experience turn out to be presently inhabited only by a " limited section " of the society . |
| 21 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 22 | The first 16 defendants are said to have been involved in the fraud or in receiving and laundering the money involved . |
| 23 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 24 | 702–3 , Archbishop Beorhtwald presiding , but the terms are said to have been that Wilfrid relinquish his episcopal office and retire to his monastery at Ripon and they were unacceptable ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 46–7 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were active as railway architects , and the stations on the main line between Newcastle and Berwick-on-Tweed , commissioned by George Hudson [ q.v. ] in 1846 — ‘ Fine , handsome buildings … more like the villas raised by retired tradesmen than residences for railway officers ’ — are said to have been by him . |
| 27 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 28 | There , 700 men are said to have been imprisoned underground , without daylight , for 11 years . |
| 29 | The Cecchini Report has also been criticised because certain key factors are said to have been omitted . |
| 30 | Around 500,000 hectares of forest are said to have been destroyed , and fires have also been reported in western Java and south Sulawesi . |