Example sentences of "said to have been [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 2 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 3 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 4 | More than 5,000,000 marijuana plants were said to have been destroyed in the operation in an attempt to curb the flow of illegal drugs from the kingdom into South Africa . |
| 5 | The alleged offence is said to have been committed in the Stack 's Leisure Park , Lochee , on 12 March . |
| 6 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |
| 7 | A mechanical digger is said to have been used in the incident at the Abbey National office in High Street , Maldon , at 4 am . |