Example sentences of "it is [adv] say [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations .
2 On a second or subsequent marriage it is frequently said that a wedding speech should make no reference to previous spouses , nor children of earlier marriages unless they are junior pages and need to be acknowledged and welcomed , or even the fact that either party has been married before .
3 Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts !
4 It is frequently said that the question of absurdity can not influence a decision in any type of case except the one just stated .
5 It is also said that the Vikings introduced the finchback characteristic to Normandy in the ninth or tenth century and , according to a detailed history of the Gloucester breed by Adam Stout , there could be a common ancestry with the finchbacked Longhorn of Lancashire through Scandinavian cattle brought to Shetland , Ireland and Lancashire by the Vikings .
6 It is usually said that the introduction of NEP pacified the peasants , but the Famine had a quicker effect in this respect .
7 It is often said that no political recovery from the trauma of Soissons was possible .
8 It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility .
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 It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time .
11 It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation .
12 It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid .
13 It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs .
14 It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) .
15 It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper .
16 It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane .
17 It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check .
18 It is often said that the quantitative increase in Trident firepower is to accommodate , or seek to pierce , the anti-ballistic missile defences that have been established in the Soviet Union .
19 IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower .
20 It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true .
21 It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient .
22 Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor .
23 It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit .
24 This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies .
25 It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race .
26 It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times .
27 It is sometimes said that the offender must have been deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law .
28 Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms .
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