Example sentences of "[noun] it have been said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this work it has been said … |
| 2 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 3 | With regard to a member of a criminal court it has been said : ( 1 ) As a general rule a pecuniary interest , if direct and individual , will disqualify , however small it may be . |
| 4 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 5 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 6 | In the annual report of the Ministry of Health it had been said that it was the practice , in some wards , to require a casual who was locked in a cell by himself to break a given quantity of stone , often very hard , down to a specified standard of size which was reached when it could be passed through a ring : |
| 7 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |