Example sentences of "it is often said [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility .
2 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 .
3 It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time .
4 It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation .
5 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 .
6 It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs .
7 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 ) .
8 It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper .
9 It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane .
10 It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check .
11 It is often said that the quantitative increase in Trident firepower is to accommodate , or seek to pierce , the anti-ballistic missile defences that have been established in the Soviet Union .
12 IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower .
13 It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true .
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