Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] said that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case . |
| 2 | He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things . |
| 3 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 4 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 5 | It is frequently said that you can make statistics say what you want them to say . |
| 6 | It is also said that they are able to exercise an element of independent supervision over inside management . |
| 7 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 8 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 9 | It is often said that you can discover a great deal about a person 's character by the books on their shelves . |
| 10 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 11 | It is often said that there can be no confidence in iniquity . |
| 12 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 13 | It is sometimes said that whoever keeps the minutes of a meeting holds the real power and in negotiating situations there is much truth in this . |
| 14 | It is sometimes said that our ‘ constitution ’ is now under stress as major changes occur far more rapidly than before in its written and unwritten parts . |
| 15 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 16 | It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system . |
| 17 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 18 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |