Example sentences of "[adv] say [to-vb] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also said to have been a good Greek scholar and a poor preacher , and it is clear that he was retiring and modest . |
| 2 | The Sargasso Sea is also said to have been the site of the ancient lost island of Atlantis where the eels could have once again found fresh water and been able to feed after spawning in the nearby sea . |
| 3 | The company is also said to have been the beneficial owner of £346,800 held by solicitors in London . |
| 4 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Stein is often said to have been the inventor of the escapement for the German action . |