Example sentences of "[be] said have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |
| 2 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 3 | The growth of home ownership even among the less well off in Britain has been said to have created a ‘ corps of working-class capitalists , a new type of property-owning bourgeoisie … . ’ |
| 4 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 5 | From this it appears that they would have to become unrecognisable as potatoes before they could have been said to have perished . |
| 6 | With two months to go , more than 2.5 million people are said to have pre-registered , more than invested in either British Telecom or British Gas . |
| 7 | The speech-writing team , locked away in a suite at the Imperial Hotel , are said to have made faster progress this year than at previous conferences , despite the need to do some hefty redrafting to echo the Chancellor 's assurances on the economy . |
| 8 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 9 | Compared to the situation just after the introduction of internment in the early 1970s , community relations are said to have improved considerably , which is true even for the period since neighbourhood foot patrols were first introduced following the hunger strikes of 1981 . |
| 10 | ‘ If you do n't come back , can I have your egg ? ’ the aircrew are said to have joked . |
| 11 | The strawberry , plum , peach , black cherry and apricot jams are said to have a high fruit content and contain no artificial colours or preservatives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lawyers in the Environment Department are said to have drawn to the attention of senior staff that renewal of the contracts was in breach of community rules . |
| 14 | The two firms are said to have indicated to NEFMA they would be able to work on the basis of Ferranti using a Telefunken-made data processor in its ECR-90 radar , he said . |
| 15 | The two firms are said to have indicated to NEFMA they would be able to work on the basis of Ferranti using a Telefunken-made data processor in its ECR-90 radar , he said . |
| 16 | Coke reserves are said to have dwindled to only 700,000 tonnes — two days ' supply . |
| 17 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | Changes in the political and economic structure of formerly Eastern Bloc countries are said to have prompted firms like Zetor to look to close the technology gap between themselves and Western counterparts . |
| 19 | Brainy people are said to have power of concentration . |
| 20 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The diamonds are said to have come from the court dress that Countess Lobkovic is wearing in her portrait outside in the upper passage of the cloister . |
| 24 | According to the bland sociological surveys of happiness , some sixty per cent of Americans are said to have responded that they were happy in their marriages . |
| 25 | Instead of adopting the cyclical idea of time , the Jews are said to have believed in a linear concept , based in their case on a teleological idea of history as the gradual revelation of God 's purpose . |
| 26 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 27 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | They were further charged with stealing a motor-cycle combination on which they are said to have carried away the safe . |
| 30 | Disadvantages are the high pressure drop which occurs across the catalyst , although modern designs are said to have reduced this , and poisoning of the catalyst due to heavy metals such as lead , arsenic , zinc etc. and phosphorus compounds , which reduces the effectiveness of the catalyst and makes its useful service life , in any particular application , difficult to predict . |