Example sentences of "[coord] so it [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 2 | The stories originate from Terra , the birthplace of mankind , or so it is said . |
| 3 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 4 | ‘ A place to dance — or so it 's said . |
| 5 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 6 | Or so it was said . |