Example sentences of "[pron] is sometimes said [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes said that rules in the last two categories ‘ lack the force of law ’ , that is , they are not enforceable in a court . |
| 2 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 3 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 4 | It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform . |
| 5 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 6 | It is sometimes said that Watkins adopted such a variety of markers , including features of all types and ages , that his ideas can be discredited on this point alone . |
| 7 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 8 | Though it is sometimes said that Hilbert 's theorem killed invariant theory , this is not entirely correct . |