Example sentences of "according to legend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody knows that porter was first brewed , according to legend , by Ralph Harwood of the Bell brewhouse in Shoreditch in 1722 . |
| 2 | According to legend they were young lovers whom the druids forbade to marry . |
| 3 | Györ was a Hunnish settlement , as was Buda , the latter , according to legend , named after a brother of Attila . |
| 4 | According to legend , their magnificent horse-herds were descended from a white mare and her colt , purchased with dentalium by a peace delegation to the Shoshoni . |
| 5 | And according to legend , a few minutes later , the employer and his guests heard three gun shots . |
| 6 | The origins of this ancient structure are lost in antiquity : according to legend it replaced a fifth-century fortress occupied by Uther Pendragon , a man of great influence and supposedly the father of King Arthur . |
| 7 | According to legend , Dick Turpin leaped across the gorge here on his horse Black Bess on a journey to or from York , presumably before the bridge was built . |
| 8 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 9 | The concept of the DEA , conceived , according to legend , by Wilson and his deputy , George Brown , in the back of a taxi on the short journey between the St Ermin 's Hotel and the House of Commons ( a legend Wilson has demolished , though on that journey he did offer Brown the job of running the DEA ) had scarcely received the attention it deserved during Labour 's preparation for power . |
| 10 | formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows . |
| 11 | Rome , founded , according to legend , by Romulus and his twin brother Remus , sons of the Roman war-god Mars and Sylvia , a vestal virgin , upon whose death they were suckled by a she-wolf . |
| 12 | According to legend the Pentateuch was written by Moses just as the Psalms were written by David . |
| 13 | According to legend , the SFA , who insisted on picking the team by committee , had forgotten to provide training strips and the team were forced to wear a multi-coloured melange of club strips and borrowed jerseys . |
| 14 | According to legend , Rough told the guards to put their guns away shouting the apocryphal line ‘ Do n't shoot I 'm the goalkeeper . ’ |
| 15 | According to legend , first recorded as early as the 16th century , Fergus defeated the Britons in battle and King Coilus was killed . |
| 16 | According to legend , some stones have moved permanently by their own power , such as the Wergin Stone near Hereford which suddenly moved 240 paces and required nine yoke of oxen to take it back . |
| 17 | The nearby Bungay & Waveney Valley , which celebrated its centenary in 1989 , began as a 9-holer laid out , according to legend , ‘ by Fernie , the Yarmouth professional ’ . |
| 18 | According to legend , England was once infested with cockatrices , until a knight dressed himself with mirrors and walked the countryside thus attired . |
| 19 | According to legend , Dame Janet decided that these ducks would be much happier in St James 's Park and arranged for them to be escorted thence . |
| 20 | According to legend , Stalin replied that he too had greatly enjoyed himself , but had completely forgotten the contents of any agreement between the two and had , unfortunately , in the meantime , had the interpreter shot ! |
| 21 | That poem opens with the funeral of the ancestor of one of its characters — Scyld , the king of the Danes , who according to legend came drifting to land as a baby , naked on a wooden shield . |
| 22 | The ‘ Hip Young Gunslingers ’ ad , according to legend , provoked 5,000 applications . |
| 23 | According to legend it was thrown by the Devil from the Isle of Wight . |
| 24 | It was here that St Patrick , patron saint of Ireland , fasted and meditated and , according to legend , banished all the snakes from Ireland . |
| 25 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
| 26 | Easily Accessible : Bosham is where , according to legend , King Cnut tried and failed to turn back the sea and the village is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry . |
| 27 | According to legend , Gorbad tore the crown of Solland from the Count 's head and placed it upon his own , and wore it thereafter as a token of his victory . |
| 28 | According to legend he once ate a plate of raw Troll meat which is regenerating within him all the time . |
| 29 | According to legend , the rule of Boris was something of a disaster : the Empire struggled under the burden of excessive taxation and corrupt officials , while the army was neglected and many border forts abandoned . |
| 30 | Metaponto , bordered by golden sandy beaches , is such an ancient town where , according to legend , they may have built the famed and historic Trojan Horse . |