Example sentences of "it has [be] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers . |
| 2 | It has been said that Ian McShane has a footballer 's haircut , but in fact what he now has is a football manager 's haircut . |
| 3 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 4 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 5 | It has been said that Peter 's military and naval staff headquarters were almost Scottish institutions . |
| 6 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 7 | It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor . |
| 8 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 9 | IT HAS been said that Glasgow only really welcomes an incomer if they have built a ship . |
| 10 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 11 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |