Example sentences of "[be] said [pron] [be] a " in BNC.
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1 | It used to be said there are a lot of very prosperous , very prosperous farmers round in Melton Mowbray . |
2 | It has to be said there is a lot that is queasily smug about this English answer to the US ‘ reunion ’ movie The Big Chill , substituting the products of Oxbridge Eighties ambition and greed for Sixties radicalism gone sour . |
3 | Particularly , you know it has to be said there is a particular age class background and so on and so forth . |
4 | It may well be that the decision of a particular valuer appointed might fix the price and might be equally satisfactory to both : so it can hardly be said there is a difference between them . |
5 | It can be said he was a victim of circumstances . |
6 | Constanza 's friend 's said he was a myth . |
7 | ‘ It 's said he was a boorish man — moody , quarrelsome . |