Example sentences of "say [to-vb] been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 2 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 3 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 4 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 5 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |