Example sentences of "[conj] it is say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 2 | Gran Canaria , the third largest of the Canary Islands , is an island of contrasting scenery , with a superb climate all year round , particularly in the south where it is said that the temperature never varies by more than five degrees . |
| 3 | There is a print by Thomas Fawcett dated 1817 , showing the Stocking Market and the Square , where it is said bulls were baited . |
| 4 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 5 | The herati design ( pls 22 , 23 ) derives its name from the town of Herat ( part of Persia until the last century , but now in Afghanistan ) , where it is said to have originated . |
| 6 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 7 | Most infections occur in childhood , although it is said that those adults who have escaped infection when young may be infected by their own children , a reversal of roles from congenital syphilis . |
| 8 | Under Ord. 53 these procedures can only be used if the court so orders , although it is said that such an order should be no less readily made than in other types of proceedings ( by originating summons ) where such an order is needed . |
| 9 | Shortly after the First World War , the mill ceased operating commercially , although it is said locally , that it was still used occasionally for the production of animal feed . |
| 10 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 11 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 12 | Whether or not that is true , the fact that it is said shows that there is a feeling of isolation in the north-east . |
| 13 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 14 | So erm you know that 's th what I 'm really talking about is more a question of the process of erm career choice , than it is saying what you should do . |
| 15 | Even though my father was a regular and popular customer , discretion was often the best part of valour ( so it is said ) . |
| 16 | Yes , so it is said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 20 | 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 ? " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 27 | There are more than 200,00 known plant species in the world and it is said we have learned to use only 2,500 of them . |
| 28 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 29 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 30 | The potential for growth had been retained and it is said that some of today 's bulls gain weight faster than continental breeds such as the Charolais ; the meat itself is now of much better quality . |