Example sentences of "said [prep] be [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poland , one year after starting a strict anti-inflation programme , is said to be a particularly terrible place . |
| 2 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 3 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 4 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It was said to be the most brilliant Court in the western world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The system is said to be the most advanced in the world , and has already led to several arrests . |