Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] [adv] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been well said of the Reformers themselves that the Bible was the sole norm and guide in matters of faith and conduct , not in everything under the sun . |
| 2 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 3 | It has been well said that " the bible is never mastered by the reader who refuses its mastery of him " . |
| 4 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 5 | It has been rightly said that these remarkable statements can only be seen as Hitler 's wish to make manifest his work in the eyes of history . |
| 6 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 7 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 8 | But since 1981 it has been commonly said , and positively emphasised by the authorities themselves , that interest rates in the UK economy are largely ‘ market determined ’ . |