Example sentences of "[pron] is said [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
| 2 | It is said that Colman 's Mustard made their money from the amount of mustard left on the plate . |
| 3 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 4 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 5 | In addition , it is said that gas is cheaper , but that is not true on two counts . |
| 6 | It is said that vegetarians ( who do not eat meat or fish ) are healthier and live longer than meat-eaters . |
| 7 | It is said that Alexander himself paced out the plan for his Egyptian city before hurrying off to conquer the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 9 | It is said that Nos. 25 and 34 were taken out of service and loaned to the War Office for use as Searchlight cars . |
| 10 | It is said that Paul Jones , the American privateer , fired a salvo at Rolston Hall to mark his hatred of the then owner , William Brough , Marshall of High Court of Admiralty , who was entitled to hang Paul Jones as a pirate if he was captured . |
| 11 | It is said that Joshua Reynolds , one of the Grand Old Men of English art , was instrumental in defining the successful modern portrait . |
| 12 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
| 13 | It is said that William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 are authorities to the contrary . |
| 14 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
| 15 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 16 | Retribution soon followed , possibly by rock fall and it is said that Simon 's bones still lie a'mouldering it , the depths — no-one , you see , had the courage to go down into his mine and search for him . |
| 17 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
| 18 | It is said that Netwise could not afford to continue financing the European effort once the cash had dried up . |
| 19 | It is said that lords and ladies and royalty were entertained here , and known that George Fox , the founder of the Quakers , preached here . |
| 20 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
| 21 | Next , it is said that lawyers and judges are not familiar with Parliamentary procedures and will therefore have difficulty in giving proper weight to the Parliamentary materials . |
| 22 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |
| 23 | Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation . |
| 24 | It is said that Wallace 's writings after his return to England persuaded Darwin to publish The Origin of Species . |
| 25 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 26 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 27 | It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age . |
| 28 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 29 | It is said that Jimmy Marshall spilt the beans about this massive unclimbed buttress of corners and cracks to the Rock and Ice in Chamonix . |
| 30 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |