Example sentences of "[pron] is said [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
| 2 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
| 3 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 4 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 5 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 6 | As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such . |