Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] said that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 34 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 37 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 41 | It is often said that many young people lose interest in poetry , and even stories , as they go through secondary school . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |
| 44 | It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 . |
| 45 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 46 | It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women . |
| 47 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 48 | It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified . |
| 49 | It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's . |
| 50 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 51 | It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid . |
| 52 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 53 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 54 | It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) . |
| 55 | It is often said that by tradition they have a right to judicial appointment when vacancies occur and that this is particularly true of appointment to the office of Lord Chief Justice . |
| 56 | It is often said that most congenital abnormalities are untreatable , but this overlooks the great contribution of tertiary prevention , and surgical techniques are constantly improving . |
| 57 | It is often said that you can discover a great deal about a person 's character by the books on their shelves . |
| 58 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 59 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 60 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |