Example sentences of "it be say [to-vb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 2 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 3 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 6 | It is for this reason that when a Kingdom has been taken by force of arms , it is said to have been taken by the sword . |
| 7 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 8 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 9 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 10 | A few plants are associated with historical lore such as the pink convolvulus or sea bindweed ( Calystegia soldanella ) , which is called ‘ the Prince 's flower ’ , because it was said to have been originally sown by Prince Charles in 1745 when he landed in Eriskay , and it is still growing on that island . |
| 11 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |