Example sentences of "[be] say [to-vb] [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 2 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 3 | All in all it could be said to have been an amicable evening . |
| 4 | This is not to belittle the exploits of Hadlee , Phillip or can der Bijl , who were essential parts of their sides ' successes , but none of whom can be said to have been an out-and-out pace man . |
| 5 | Donationes mortis causa may be said to have been an anomaly in our law , both for their immunity to the Statute of Frauds 1677 and the Wills Act 1837 and as exceptions to the rule that equity will not perfect an imperfect gift . |
| 6 | His novels were praised by the first Earl of Balfour , and were said to have been the favourite reading of Queen Alexandra . |
| 7 | The blood pressure stability is said to have been no different between the two groups . |
| 8 | The environment is said to have been a lagoon , and the ‘ shrimp band ’ is thought to represent an episode of sudden flooding by the sea . |
| 9 | Its church ( 1457 ) was dedicated to Santa Catarina by Henrique Alemão — ‘ Henry the German ’ — who is said to have been a Polish king . |
| 10 | One of the most beautiful water-spirits known , Lorelei is said to have been a German girl who was unlucky in love and drowned herself as a result . |
| 11 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 12 | Like its predecessor , Fonthill Abbey is said to have been a symmetrical building in Gothic disguise , while Vathek provides even less domestic detail than Otranto — the adjective , indeed , scarcely applies . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs what is said to have been a false and fraudulent over-valuation of the bakery made in June 1983 by another of the alleged conspirators in order to support an even higher level of loan by B.M.T. ( 5 ) On 24 June 1983 B.M.T. offered to lend C.M.C. £420,000 on the security of the bakery in substitution for its previous offer to lend £185,500 . |
| 14 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 15 | In 1275 he is said to have been a serious rival to the saintly Thomas de Cantelupe [ q.v. ] for the see of Hereford . |
| 16 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 17 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 18 | That general attitude of the South 's is said to have been the most striking impression retained by Ripa di Meana , the EC environment commissioner , from talks during his first year in office ( 1989 ) with Third World ministers and officials . |
| 19 | She is considered incredibly bright , capable , and is said to have been the prime mover in persuading Mr Lamont to reduce tax on new cars — a popular move in last month 's Budget statement . |
| 20 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 21 | He is said to have been the joint author , with Donaldson , of the Commissioner 's design for the Crystal Palace in 1850 . |
| 22 | Adam is said to have been the herald of the Taurean Age ( the age of the bull which gives life ) , while Abraham began the Age of Aries ( sacrificing the ram instead of his son ) . |
| 23 | In a field on the north side of the A758 Ayr/Mauchline road , about a mile west of Failford , there is the site of a tumulus that is said to have been the burial place of King Coilus . |
| 24 | He met Fanny Blandy , who is said to have been the only person to understand what he was talking about , and she used flags to signal to him in the harbour from the family Quinta da Santa Luzia . |
| 25 | This is said to have been the scene of the Faroese legend of the eagle and the baby . |
| 26 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |
| 27 | An early occupant is said to have been the villainous Lord Soulis , who in the ballad of the Cout of Keilder forces the head of his noble visitor under a pool in the Hermitage Water to drown him . |
| 28 | Janet 's Foss ( foss = force = waterfall ) is said to have been the haunt of a witch or water sprite called Jennet . |
| 29 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 30 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |