Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] be said that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that a negative character quality is a positive quality misused . |
| 2 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
| 3 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
| 4 | It has been said that no application from a major firm for a capacity increment has ever been flatly rejected , although some have been delayed . |
| 5 | It has been said that no normal English speaker would ever pronounce all the consonants between the last two words of the following : ‘ George the Sixth 's throne ’ Though this is not impossible to pronounce , something like … is more likely . |
| 6 | Indeed , it has been said that the north-west of Scotland has a higher sustained wind speed than any other inhabited part of the world ( Gloyne 1968 ) . |
| 7 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |
| 8 | It has been said that the Church has a responsibility to ‘ engage the culture of our nation with the gospel . ’ |
| 9 | It has been said that the name Lowthorpe or Logetorp could have meant ‘ Law-village ’ in ancient Norse . |
| 10 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 11 | It has been said that the mission to Dessau on May 28 was the roughest the Group ever experienced . |
| 12 | It has been said that the theory of the Oedipus complex is culturally ethnocentric , and that in other cultures , with different family systems , there is no Oedipus complex . |
| 13 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 14 | It has been said that the word ’ semantics ’ refers to the analysis of the meaning of single sentences . |
| 15 | It has been said that the real question in the case is the degree of restriction that can be imposed upon a sovereign State in negotiating with another State in matters that affect the vital interests of third States . |
| 16 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 17 | The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment . |
| 18 | It has been said that the Irish Sea and even the Bristol Channel ( just outside my window as I write ) are older than the Atlantic . |
| 19 | It has been said that the history of the landscape of Britain is ‘ one long assart ’ ( clearance ) . |
| 20 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 21 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |
| 22 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 23 | Finally , it has been said that the Department of Trade and Industry bears the mantle of the most unsuccessful Department of State . |
| 24 | Where the deception made no difference to the victim , it has been said that the accused is not guilty . |
| 25 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 26 | It has been said that the Meditations on the Passion are proper to beginners in spiritual life . |
| 27 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 28 | The drafter can , therefore , minimise the scope for application of the rule by seeking to avoid ambiguity , since it has been said that the court " must not strive to create ambiguities by strained interpretation " ( Lord Wilberforce in Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 964 ) . |
| 29 | It has been said that an order of mandamus ought not to he made if the respondent is doing all it reasonably can to remedy its breach of duty . |
| 30 | There are two types of patentable invention , a product invention and a process invention , and it has been said that an invention is a new way of making something old or an old way of making something new . |