Example sentences of "it is often said [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 8 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |