Example sentences of "it [is] often said " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's often said the best way to pack for a holiday is to lay everything out you think you 'll need — and then leave half the things behind . |
| 3 | Orcadian dialect it 's often said has no words of endearment no dears or darlings but I think perhaps came as near to it as any word . |
| 4 | So that 's well , before we can go in , launch into this , I mean it 's often said that erm , er , well , one of the major reasons why agricultural commodity trade has n't been included in GATT , like virtually every other er , product has been , is because governments are saying , look this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , we 're supporting our farmers , it 's a domestic policy . |
| 5 | It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility . |
| 6 | It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out ! |
| 7 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 8 | It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Additionally , it is often said how difficult people find it to say ‘ goodbye ’ . |
| 11 | It is often said in such circumstances that the shock of the news has been too great . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 14 | It is often said , and rightly , that a lot of thought goes into defendants ' rights , but not enough into victims ' rights . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time . |
| 17 | It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy . |
| 18 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 21 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 25 | It is often said that many young people lose interest in poetry , and even stories , as they go through secondary school . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats . |
| 28 | It is often said , ‘ The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence . ’ |
| 29 | The Greeks , it is often said , are wonderful patriots but terrible citizens . |
| 30 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |