Example sentences of "be say [to-vb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with the non-European world in general , with Asia and whatever independent states could be said to exist in Africa , with Latin America and even to a large extent with the United States , Europe 's relationship was still very largely an economic one based on the increasing flows of intercontinental trade . |
| 2 | Why , he thought — if one can be said to think in dreams — did I ever take this on ? |
| 3 | As long as expenditure can not be said to apply in support of specific candidates , national party campaigns do not fall foul of the election finance restrictions . |
| 4 | Between 20 and 60 people were said to remain in detention following what was described as a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8-9 by Afar politician Ali Aref Bourhan . |
| 5 | When a minor term of the contract , called a warranty , is breached , the plaintiff may not repudiate the contract but only sue for damages ; breach of a warranty is said to sound in damages only . |
| 6 | He is said to die in India , pierced with lances , and the tomb in which he is buried is later found empty . |
| 7 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 8 | Indeed , it could have been read merely as appreciation of Malcolm Harris 's writing ; it was the part , after all , not the acting , which was said to grow in stature . |