Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was said to be the most brilliant Court in the western world . |
| 2 | The system is said to be the most advanced in the world , and has already led to several arrests . |
| 3 | Several authentic portraits exist , of which the unfinished one by his brother-in-law Joseph Lange ( see page 65 ) , painted about two years before Mozart 's death , is said to be the most accurate likeness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 6 | Totemism is the earliest form of religion , according to Freud , and he quotes Robertson Smith 's The Religion of the Semites in which the sacrifice of an animal at the altar is said to be the most fundamental element in religion . |
| 7 | 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 . |