Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 2 | So it is said . " |
| 3 | The stories originate from Terra , the birthplace of mankind , or so it is said . |
| 4 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 5 | The , the importance of this , is that Freud is often said to have been a Hobbesian thinker , in the sense that , er without necessarily being directly influenced by Hobbes , he took a similar , a similar kind of view , or at least , so it is said . |
| 6 | That 's because these musics are ‘ masculinist ’ , ‘ sexist ’ , ‘ macho ’ , even so it 's said , ‘ fascistic ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ A place to dance — or so it 's said . |
| 8 | Thus it is said ( though still with problems of interpretation ) that the bards were a specific order ranking below the priests and the seers , though composing with them a specific privileged caste . |
| 9 | Thus it is said in several cases that the plaintiff must have ‘ a right of property in the thing and a right of possession ’ and that unless both these rights concur the action will not lie . |
| 10 | Thus it is said that a particular decision was taken by Sir Bryan Carsberg rather than by Oftel . |
| 11 | Using Kirchhoff 's current law at the noninverting input of this trigger gives so that Hence the output switches over to the opposite saturation state from positive and negative saturation when respectively It is said that the circuit acts as a discriminator . |
| 12 | Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening . |
| 13 | Yet here it is said , the slave must be freely given what he can not claim for himself ; what no one would even claim for him . |
| 14 | In this mode of attribution young people are not spoken of as having tragic love affairs , rather it is said that ‘ they ca n't cope with physical sexual experiences ’ . |
| 15 | If the word is not found then it is said to be misspelled , so either correction is attempted , or it is returned to the user for verification . |
| 16 | Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation . |
| 17 | There it is said the ghost of his departed wife pleaded with him to proceed no further . |
| 18 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 19 | Again it is said , at p. 154 : |
| 20 | Therefore it is said that the situation on their return would be intolerable and pointless . ’ |