Example sentences of "it [is] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's said to be unlucky to change a boat 's name . ’ |
| 2 | It 's said to be a symbolic tale with the casting out of the snakes related to the ousting of the old beliefs . |
| 3 | It 's said to be as effective as the pill and experts say it 'll widen the choice for women . |
| 4 | It is said above that one must take one of two positions : one is that stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word ( see for example Jones ( 1975 ) , sections 920–1 ) . |
| 5 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 6 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |
| 7 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 8 | It is said for the appellants that the decisions of Home Office ministers fixing their tariff periods were irrational , in public law terms , because they must have exceeded those recommended by the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 9 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 10 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 11 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 12 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 13 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 14 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 15 | It is said to be water insoluble . |
| 16 | The word ‘ aura ’ is derived from the Greek avra meaning breeze because it is said to be continually in motion . |
| 17 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 18 | Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use . |
| 19 | It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease . |
| 20 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 21 | When a bank note can be exchanged for gold on demand at a bank it is said to be convertible or redeemable . |
| 22 | It is said to be invisible in its natural state but will form into semi-matter under certain conditions , rather like invisible moist air condensing into a filmy liquid on windows . |
| 23 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 24 | At Burley Camp in Devon a crock of gold is said to be buried , but anyone who tries to dig for it is said to be scared away by thunder and lightning . |
| 25 | Built as a hunting lodge for the Deer Park it is said to be haunted by a huntsman in green ! |
| 26 | It is said to be present , although usually without symptoms , in one in ten people over the age of forty , and in one in three over the age of sixty . |
| 27 | It is said to be a nervous fish and it will probably benefit from the presence of other fish — acting as dither fish — to give it confidence . |
| 28 | If the cell loses its charge , it is said to be depolarized , and a cycle of depolarization and repolarization accompanies many cellular functions . |
| 29 | If a book or manuscript has headings or the first capitals of paragraphs painted or printed in red , the rest of the text being black , it is said to be ‘ rubricated ’ . |
| 30 | It is said to ‘ cheer people up ’ . |