Example sentences of "as [pron] is said " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14 ) when replying to the question what was God doing before he made heaven and earth , ‘ I answer not , ’ he wrote , ‘ as one is said to have done merrily ( eluding the pressure of the question ) , ‘ He was preparing hell ( saith he ) for pryers into mysteries ’ . ’ |
| 2 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 3 | The particular allegation is directed to the failure of the council , as it is said , to secure the suitable accommodation for which section 69(1) provides . |
| 4 | The cases cited , and referred to in depth by my noble and learned friends , have proceeded on the basis that on the one hand money paid under a mistake of fact or under duress or as it is said ‘ colore officii ’ can be recovered , whereas money paid under a mistake of law or voluntarily ‘ to close a transaction ’ or to avoid threatened litigation can not . |
| 5 | Some artists become so resentful of the conventionalities that come with the signal — the imposition , as it is said , of a merely ‘ arty ’ atmosphere — that they consciously take their work to other , ‘ more normal ’ places . |
| 6 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 7 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 8 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 9 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 10 | As it is said in the East , ‘ only by seeking , can one find ’ . |
| 11 | An example of the first might be Mrs Thatcher , insofar as it is said that she dominated her Cabinets . |