Example sentences of "was say [prep] [be] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 2 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 3 | ‘ It was said to be the most brilliant Court in the western world . |
| 4 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 5 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |