Example sentences of "so it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though my father was a regular and popular customer , discretion was often the best part of valour ( so it is said ) . |
| 2 | Yes , so it is said . |
| 3 | In relativism , so it is said , every valuation is debased to ‘ a matter of taste ’ , on which anyone 's opinion is as good as anyone else 's . |
| 4 | Legal institutions may employ force but , so it is said , they only use force to combat and overcome those who disrupt order by the use of their own force . |
| 5 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 6 | Somebody ( a clever " university type " , so it is said ) in a pub in Bainbridge once loudly informed one of the locals , " Do you know that the river Bain is the shortest river in England ? " |
| 7 | When the coffin was opened , so it is said , the hair and nails had grown and the flesh was glowing pink as though the corpse were alive . |
| 8 | Archbishop Reynolds , who had excommunicated the invaders on their arrival in England , now fled from London on horses appropriated — so it is said — from the bishop of Rochester who had to make his way to safety on foot . |
| 9 | The assistant recorder held that he had been so committed notwithstanding ( so it is said ) an express concession by the prosecution that he had not . |
| 10 | Which only goes to show ( so it is said ) that existential propositions are general propositions , or else they do not qualify as genuine propositions at all . |
| 11 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 12 | As the beer can not generate its own carbon dioxide it would be flat and lifeless so it is racked not into casks but into pressurised containers known as kegs . |
| 13 | Note that as the principal repayment reduces the loan outstanding so it is debited to that account . |
| 14 | As the body is laid bare of garments so it is covered with barriers to nudity such as ‘ exoticism ’ in the form of furs , fans , feathers , etc . |
| 15 | Teachers are seen to display personal qualities of which the observer disapproves ; so it is assumed they lack more desirable ones . |
| 16 | But from a Christian point of view , so it is argued , ‘ Providers of capital are merely owners of the capital goods … |
| 17 | Congress , so it is argued , lacks the information resources of the executive and is neither capable of keeping secrets nor of providing the sort of instant response to crises that modern technology and weaponry demands . |
| 18 | Therapeutic practice can not , so it is argued , itself be used to verify the claims of psychoanalytic theories , as is often claimed by analysts . |
| 19 | He studied engineering in both France and Germany , patenting the first compression ignition engine in 1892 , so it is fitting that while Germany probably had the early lead , particularly with trucks , French makers have had a love affair with diesel cars since the 1930s . |
| 20 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 21 | At the right are shown responses from the other type : here the burst of impulses occurs when the spot of light goes off , so it is called an ‘ off-centre unit ’ . |
| 22 | Labour will not come clean with its figures , so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery . |
| 23 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 24 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 25 | ON HANDMADE AND MOULD MADE SHEETS THE LOGO IS SEWN INTO THE MESH SO IT IS RAISED AND LESS PULP IS DEPOSITED ON IT . |
| 26 | On handmade and mould-made sheets the logo is sewn onto the mesh so it is raised and less pulp is deposited on it . |
| 27 | But for attitudinism an ethical statement does not state any fact at all , not even the fact that the speaker has a certain attitude ; rather it expresses an attitude , something , so it is contended , which is very different . |
| 28 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 29 | As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly-formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely-magnetized strips on each side of the ridge . |
| 30 | It does n't do any harm in machines that do n't require this rerouting so it is installed as a default . |