Example sentences of "it was said that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that every mangy cur in the neighbourhood gathered in packs after the execution , greedily licking the blood from the cobblestones . |
| 2 | It was said that a talented and gentle boy , named Israel , led his classmates into the forest to admire the birds and flowers , talking all the while of the holy scriptures . |
| 3 | It was said that a massacre had followed the surrender of General Wheeler at Cawnpore and that delicate English girls had been stripped naked and dragged through the streets of Delhi . |
| 4 | In fact , it was said that a plant of balm In the garden would ensure that the bees never left their hive to set up home elsewhere , and since sugar was highly priced in medieval days , honey carried a considerable premium . |
| 5 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 6 | For some this proved too much and it was said that a few members of the group started to resemble the colour of our logo ! |
| 7 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 8 | It was said that the ‘ Treasures of Britain' exhibition could not be seen in England for lack of somewhere suitable to mount it . |
| 9 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 10 | Because a mosque stood next door it was said that the cinema had been rejected by Allah as an unworthy neighbour . |
| 11 | It was said that the poet Shelley had been here to sail paper boats . |
| 12 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 13 | Pork was the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries and it was said that the peasants of Britain lived on bread , bacon and beer . |
| 14 | From the same area — around Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian alps — it was said that the mood was getting ‘ noticeably worse by the day ’ on account of the provisioning difficulties . |
| 15 | It was said that the Kahanamokus were the descendants of Kamehameha the Great , but Duke inherited his name from his father , a Honolulu police captain who was named after the then Duke of Edinburgh following his visit to the Islands in 1869 . |
| 16 | It was said that the report had advocated crude measures for dealing with a complex problem , and that not enough was known about the patterns of library use and the effects of browsing , literature obsolescence , or other factors , to put the future of university libraries at risk by wholesale withdrawals from stock at this stage of their development . |
| 17 | The operation of trolleys and pantographs together was not without its problems , and it was said that the great used on the collector plates could be found on the overhead line as far as Lytham ! |
| 18 | A century ago it was said that the Danish Red ( then one of only two Danish breeds considered worthy of note , the other being the Jutland ) needed abundant fodder but with good care it could be an efficient producer : the milking cow put it all into the bag but would fatten readily when dry or barren . |
| 19 | Later in the day it was said that the Germans had refused to issue any more food parcels for the rest of the week . |
| 20 | It was said that the British cavalry , in their mad haste to get away , rode over their own infantry in the narrow streets of the town . |
| 21 | By the time Coleman died it was said that the number of veterinary surgeons practising in the three kingdoms fell little short of 1,000 . |
| 22 | It was said that the planners threatened all of this by placing obstacles in the way of local people in their efforts to fulfil their lives . |
| 23 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 24 | It was said that the matter came to light when the stockmarket crash of October 1987 left the advisers facing large losses . |
| 25 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 26 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 27 | It was said that the working people of London had no need to bolt their doors at any time . |
| 28 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 29 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 30 | In South London , for example , it was said that the gangs wore ‘ boots toe-plated with iron , and calculated to kill easily ’ . |