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 .
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