Example sentences of "say have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Annie Murphy , whose life the Irish papers say has been threatened , if she returns , Mr Hudson felt she had showed great courage . |
| 2 | First , the hon. Gentleman has suggested that the report , which he says has been leaked , is accurate , but I suggest to him and to the House that it is not . |
| 3 | Orlando Azcué was also said to have been beaten by prison guards on at least three occasions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 6 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 7 | Villagers were said to have been killed . |
| 8 | Heavy fighting was reported , and 150 people were said to have been killed [ see also p. 38134 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 12 | Much occult literature is said to have been written automatically . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There needs to be some procedure , however , which is akin to the analysand coming to accept the analysts ' interpretations in the analytic setting for the hypotheses to be said to have been tested . |
| 16 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 17 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 18 | Cindy is said to have been spurred on to achieve by the death of her four-year-old brother Jeff , a leukaemia victim . |
| 19 | A mortgage by Bishop Eadnoth of Crediton from 1018 ( S 1387 ) is said to have been declared to the borough meetings of Exeter , Totnes , Lydford and Barnstaple . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 22 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 23 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 24 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Significantly , the key decisions in containing these disturbances were afterwards said to have been made not so much by the Shah as by his prime minister , Assadollah Alam , vital figure in the development of Iran in the sixties and seventies . |
| 28 | The capital of Kenya , Nairobi , can truly be said to have been made by its station . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |