Example sentences of "when [pers pn] is said " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 2 | In 1589 Wild Will was out riding and was just about to jump the stile on the ancient trackway when it is said the image of a burning baby appeared . |
| 3 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 4 | ‘ After all when it is said and done , |
| 5 | But when it is said , ‘ Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry ’ ( Eph. 4:26 ) the insight and directive there is immensely practical . |
| 6 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 7 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |
| 8 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |