Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] that [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that Edison set it recording and spoke ‘ Mary had a little lamb ’ into it . |
| 2 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 3 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 4 | It is furthermore of great importance that the devices interfere less with working procedures than traditional shielding equipment does , and it is experienced that investigators use them more frequently than the traditional large shields . |
| 5 | It is known that youths grew their hair long in preparation for a ritual offering of a lock of hair to the deity . |
| 6 | The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century . |
| 7 | But in these papers it is stated that Tyndale headed his written defence , ‘ Faith alone justifies before God ’ , and that among the questions debated were worship of saints , the Sacraments and the authority of the Pope . |