Example sentences of "said have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a an oak wood said to have grown from acorns planted after the Battle of Waterloo and is known as Waterloo Wood . |
| 2 | We go in search of the Editori del Grifo , a young team of publishers said to have moved from Rome back home to Montepulciano as a vote of confidence in the old place ; they have moved again , however , and we have run out of the steam needed to look for their new office . |
| 3 | According to a message broadcast by President Samuel Doe on Dec. 30 , 1989 , armed rebels , said to have infiltrated from Côte d'Ivoire , attacked a border customs post on Dec. 24 , killing an Army officer and replacing the Liberian flag with an " unknown " one . |
| 4 | There is an ormolu chandelier , said to have come from Versailles , a circular marble-top table made form a section of a pillar from St Peter 's , Rome , some Chippendale and Hepplewhite pieces , and paintings by Dutch , Italian and French artists . |
| 5 | During A.D. 57–8 , another Messiah appeared , said to have come from the Jewish community in Egypt . |
| 6 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 7 | In south-eastern Chad , Mosanat ( Mouvement pour la salvation nationale tchadienne ) claimed military victories in early March 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) and denied the government 's claims that fighting in that region had involved a Libyan-backed Islamic Legion ( a force of some 2,000 whom the Sudanese authorities said had crossed from Libya into Sudan in early August 1988 , and on whom the Habre government claimed to have inflicted defeats in December 1988 some 100 km west of the Sudanese border ) . |