Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been said that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 2 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 3 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 4 | Much has already been said that has a bearing upon the underlying significance of the environment . |
| 5 | It has already been said that your daily programme of language learning should include the ingredients of listening , mimicking , practice ( drilling ) and participating . |
| 6 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 7 | It has also been said that private companies can be enticed into investment in eastern Europe , as in the deal whereby BSN of France and Nestle of Switzerland bought a stake in Czech confectioner Chakoladnovy . |
| 8 | It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses . |
| 9 | para 4 : It has also been said that the problem of induction is … |
| 10 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 11 | It has also been said that if a member of a court announced that he would give expression to his views by voting against every licence , he would be disqualified : McGeehan v. Knox ( supra ) , Lord Mackenzie at p.696 . |
| 12 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 13 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 14 | It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job . |
| 15 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |
| 16 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 17 | It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency . |
| 18 | It has often been said that the decisive development since Darwin was a new synthesis , in the 1920s and 1930s , of Mendel on heredity and Darwin on selection . |
| 19 | It has often been said that he did not really have any very clear idea of what he wanted from his Council ; and as far as content goes , that may be true . |
| 20 | It has often been said that because of the restrictions on discovery , interrogatories and cross-examination under Ord. 53 , the AJR is not a suitable vehicle for resolving factual disputes , and this provides a justification for not requiring collateral attacks to be made by way of an AJR . |
| 21 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 22 | It has often been said that his characters are " puppets " of his grand design , but his own vision necessarily makes them so . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 24 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 25 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 26 | It had also been said that his father had been employed there . |
| 27 | Oh , we got plenty of help , and of course , it 's always been said that you do n't reveal a man 's past until he 's been found guilty of an offence , but our magistrates were all local shopkeepers you know |
| 28 | It 's also been said that Prince , who writes songs for anyone and everyone from Sheena Easton to The Bangles , has written a song specifically for her called ‘ Do Me Baby ’ . |