Example sentences of "say [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new classical and baroque forms are often said to have arisen from the conscious departure in taste represented in the buildings of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 . |
| 2 | At the beginning of time it was said to have arisen from the primeval waters , the waters of Chaos . |
| 3 | Given their less-favoured area status , Scottish and north of Scotland agriculture can hardly be said to have contributed to the problems of CAP overproduction and the related MacSharry implications . |
| 4 | Rebuilt in the mid-18th Century , it stands on the site of an earlier house in which Charles I is said to have stayed before the Battle of Edgehill . |
| 5 | Ralph Steadman was said to have run down the street telling passers-by , including bewildered elderly ladies , that he had got ‘ one in Punch ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It may be said to have begun with a golliwog , ’ he wrote , ’ and ended with an alsatian bitch' . |
| 7 | However , the history of the Channel Tunnel is generally said to have begun with the 1820 proposal of French mining engineer Albert Mathieu-Favier for a road tunnel lit by gas and ventilated through chimneys emerging above sea level . |
| 8 | The ‘ Permissive Society ’ could be said to have begun in the cradles of the Spock babies of the Forties and Fifties , who became the student protestors of the Sixties . |
| 9 | The suggestion is said to have emanated from a specialist chemicals magazine , but ICI refused to comment . |
| 10 | Instead of adopting the cyclical idea of time , the Jews are said to have believed in a linear concept , based in their case on a teleological idea of history as the gradual revelation of God 's purpose . |
| 11 | The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy . |
| 12 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant ran into the rear of the premises . |
| 13 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant fled into the rear of the premises . |
| 14 | They are said to have disagreed about the calendar cycles whereby the dating of Easter was fixed each year . |
| 15 | They are said to have disagreed about the shape of the clerical tonsure , Rome insisting on a variation of the tonsure familiar today while prelates of the Celtic Church shaved the entire frontal section of the head , from the temples to the middle of the scalp , and left long hair hanging behind — the stereotyped modern image of the Druid . |
| 16 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 17 | The central section , ‘ New States of Consciousness and Social Change ’ then deals with a range of beliefs and attitudes which are said to have followed in the wake of these developments , and in particular with what Le Roy Ladurie calls ‘ a deep and sometimes lasting permutation in peasant mentality ’ . |
| 18 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |
| 19 | Rich merchants from Spain had traded there , and the young Christopher Columbus is said to have worshipped in the Church of St Nicholas . |
| 20 | After the war the site for the statue was chosen at Terreiro da Luta , near the Fonte da Telha where the Virgin was said to have appeared to the little shepherdess . |
| 21 | At the presidential palace some ministers were said to have wept in the cabinet room . |
| 22 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 23 | Taken together , these four factors were said to have made for an expansion of participants in pressure politics and for an expansion of demands on government . |
| 24 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 25 | Infiltration by Special Branch officers posing as miners is said to have occurred during the coal dispute ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:145 ) . |
| 26 | A small bomb was said to have exploded near the royal party 's hotel , causing no injuries . |
| 27 | The name Mappleton is said to have evolved from the Saxon ‘ Moe pel tun ’ , the farmstead by the maple tree . |
| 28 | The diamonds are said to have come from the court dress that Countess Lobkovic is wearing in her portrait outside in the upper passage of the cloister . |
| 29 | Where employed , living-in journeymen got their keep and 6s ( 30p ) , which rate was said to have persisted since the 1730s . |
| 30 | The nature of the benefit which the employer is said to have derived from a particular invention is readily ascertainable if the employee can show that the employer is in receipt of royalty payments from licensees who have been permitted to develop , manufacture and market the patented article or process . |