Example sentences of "it was say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic . |
| 2 | It was said to be effective only if found without actually seeking it , and some people who came upon it used to say a prayer such as : |
| 3 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 4 | In 1717 he began buying land in Kent and the city of London , which eventually placed the family among the largest landowners in the county ; it was said to be possible to walk for a day in north-west Kent without leaving Page property . |
| 5 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 6 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |