Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [is] say " in BNC.

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1 CELEX is open to the public and is available to subscribers by network , although that is said to be rather difficult to use .
2 It is important to note in particular that although much is said and written about directives ( as indeed will be the case later in this article ) , they are much less numerous than regulations , which appear in effect as the most frequently used Community legislative instrument .
3 The little flute practises its exercise , and then all is silent , because all is said .
4 I know that Conservative Memberts get upset when that is said , but that is the fact of the matter .
5 The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense .
6 When all is said and done , The Bartered Bride is rarely less than enchanting .
7 What seems miraculous , when all is said , is that a man driven by so many acts of perversity should have been embraced so widely .
8 When all is said and done , the passage is barely understandable .
9 He has had an unhappy life , when all is said and done , unhappy in the personal department .
10 He was , when all is said and done , Dudley 's man .
11 All these thoughts seem right and proper at this time but , when all is said and done , might not much of the above be applied to any institution ?
12 When all is said and done flake foods are excellent as a staple diet .
13 But when all is said and done , the name of the novel game is entertainment , and in that Richard Allen has never failed to deliver .
14 ‘ I do n't wish to criticise your friend but , when all is said and done , what does a half-mad old maid know about anything ?
15 When all is said and done , the modern day season ticket holder or the viewer of closed circuit television , no less than old time slave masters , have decisive effects on the destinies of sportsmen .
16 Personally my advice is as in the diagram above and the box — though when all is said and done , it 's common sense , and you may know better .
17 When all is said , this is why the alternative we think most rational for the USSR is the least rational and the least likely to emerge .
18 When all is said and done , we are left with the question , what use is research to practitioners ?
19 But when all is said and done , AT&T will be left sitting with stock valued at $100m more than its current USL holdings .
20 This was , when all is said and done , class legislation : enacted by one class for the betterment of its lower brethren ; not for the correction of its own bad habits .
21 But when all is said and done , what innovation requires is hard , focused , purposeful work .
22 When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour .
23 When all is said and done , there may be no way to avoid the momentary grip of fear descending on you when unusual things start to happen on your computer , but I hope to have shown that this should not necessarily start a panic .
24 ‘ He is the late King 's son when all is said .
25 When all is said and done , this is just a straightforward crime and we would n't normally put him on to something like this . ’
26 When all is said and done , 60pc of the stallholders are making a living from these sales and are paying a fee to the organisers for the space they have .
27 I think it could be more like £400 when all is said and done . ’
28 Five drafts of the relevant passage survive , the first reading ‘ When all 's said and done I 'm a decent man ’ .
29 Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round .
30 Blood 's thicker than water , when all 's said and done , ’ Mary Ann was saying .
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