Example sentences of "say to have be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1275 he is said to have been a serious rival to the saintly Thomas de Cantelupe [ q.v. ] for the see of Hereford . |
| 2 | He was said to have been a strong swimmer . |
| 3 | Indeed , the manner in which the railways forced the mixing of the castes was said to have been a contributory cause of the Mutiny in 1857 , although it must be said that the revolt broke out in an area still far from the early Indian railway projects . |
| 4 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 5 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 6 | The , the importance of this , is that Freud is often said to have been a Hobbesian thinker , in the sense that , er without necessarily being directly influenced by Hobbes , he took a similar , a similar kind of view , or at least , so it is said . |
| 7 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 8 | Like its predecessor , Fonthill Abbey is said to have been a symmetrical building in Gothic disguise , while Vathek provides even less domestic detail than Otranto — the adjective , indeed , scarcely applies . |
| 9 | Its church ( 1457 ) was dedicated to Santa Catarina by Henrique Alemão — ‘ Henry the German ’ — who is said to have been a Polish king . |
| 10 | One of the most beautiful water-spirits known , Lorelei is said to have been a German girl who was unlucky in love and drowned herself as a result . |
| 11 | All in all it could be said to have been an amicable evening . |
| 12 | This is not to belittle the exploits of Hadlee , Phillip or can der Bijl , who were essential parts of their sides ' successes , but none of whom can be said to have been an out-and-out pace man . |
| 13 | Originally there was considerable variety among the cattle of Wales , which at one time included the Glamorgan , said to have been an ancient breed of doubtful origin , possibly partly Norman or from a Devon cross . |