Example sentences of "[is] sometimes said " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is sometimes said that the offender must have been deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law . |
| 32 | It is sometimes said that our ‘ constitution ’ is now under stress as major changes occur far more rapidly than before in its written and unwritten parts . |
| 33 | We now have the sociology , it is sometimes said , but where is the art ? |
| 34 | Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms . |
| 35 | It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform . |
| 36 | Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor . |
| 37 | Moreover , rather than perpetuate the stereotype of woman as passive victim , man as aggressor , rape , it is sometimes said , should be gender neutral with respect to perpetrators as well . |
| 38 | It is sometimes said that few young people get involved in CPRW 's work , but this is certainly not the case at our Annual Youth Environment Conference where this year , as ever , 100% of the delegates were under 21 ! |
| 39 | It is sometimes said that this appalling performance by the British economy in the early 1990s has been ‘ imported ’ from a world recession . |
| 40 | Public disagreement about a school is sometimes said to be bad for the education of its pupils . |
| 41 | It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad , things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise . |
| 42 | As for David Hume himself , it is sometimes said that that great Scottish philosopher disposed of the Argument from Design a century before Darwin . |
| 43 | In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case . |