Example sentences of "it is [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 31 | Galois , it is usually said , coined the word group at this time and introduced the concept of normal subgroup . |
| 32 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 33 | It is usually said that in the voice from heaven at the baptism of Jesus we have an example of the bath qol . |
| 34 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 35 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 36 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 37 | It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out ! |
| 38 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 39 | It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work . |
| 40 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 41 | Additionally , it is often said how difficult people find it to say ‘ goodbye ’ . |
| 42 | It is often said in such circumstances that the shock of the news has been too great . |
| 43 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 44 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 45 | It is often said , and rightly , that a lot of thought goes into defendants ' rights , but not enough into victims ' rights . |
| 46 | It is often said that Britain 's membership of the Community is good for British business , and attention is drawn to the volume of our trade with the Community . |
| 47 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 48 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 49 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 50 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 51 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 52 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 53 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 54 | It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own . |
| 55 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 56 | It is often said that many young people lose interest in poetry , and even stories , as they go through secondary school . |
| 57 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 58 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |
| 59 | It is often said , ‘ The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence . ’ |
| 60 | The Greeks , it is often said , are wonderful patriots but terrible citizens . |