Example sentences of "[adj] was say to " in BNC.

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1 In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves .
2 In addition , Wagaddon , publishers of the magazine , had its own legal bill , but this was said to be less than £35,000 .
3 This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands .
4 This was said to be ‘ the first Peruvian book of poetry that does not make tribute to a colonial aesthetic . ’
5 This was said to be ‘ erring wildly on the cautious side . ’
6 Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente .
7 On the one occasion this was said to me , my reply was : ‘ OK , imagine I go out to dinner and do n't get back .
8 This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat .
9 A 1986 U.S. study found an increased risk to expectant mothers , but this was said to be a small sample , which was followed by two further studies .
10 This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless .
11 The Maréchal de Bassompierre , again a military man , after another brief embassy to London five years later , was given by Charles I " four diamonds set in a lozenge , and a great stone at the end " : this was said to be worth £7,000 and was perhaps the most valuable present ever given by any English ruler to a foreign diplomat .
12 Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 .
13 One of these was said to be a £5m loan to Raper 's master company , the Hong Kong and Netherlands based Gasco Group .
14 The key to section 13 was said to be ‘ identification ’ not ‘ quality . ’
15 The production of Le nozze di Figaro which Gründgens did earlier with Klemperer in 1931 was said to be politically very radical , yet Gründgens later became Intendant of Berlin 's Staatliches Schauspielhaus , with Goering 's support .
16 However , there was one big kolkhoz consisting of 150 households only 20 versts from Roslavl' that was said to be too well satisfied with itself , and so did not welcome visits from the town .
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