Example sentences of "often be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
| 2 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 3 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has often been said that his characters are " puppets " of his grand design , but his own vision necessarily makes them so . |
| 13 | In 1935 he succeeded William McDougall as Honorary secretary/treasure " It has often been said , " he wrote after fifteen years in office , " that the British Deaf and Dumb Association is to the deaf what a Trade Union is to the hearing workman , but it is more , it is a great BROTHERHOOD of mutual service , membership of which is open to the deaf and their hearing friends alike . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |