Example sentences of "it [is] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 2 | That 's because these musics are ‘ masculinist ’ , ‘ sexist ’ , ‘ macho ’ , even so it 's said , ‘ fascistic ’ . |
| 3 | She ( Jane 's editor ) is so jittery it 's said she wriggles about on her chair to such an extent that she wears out several pairs of knickers a week ! ’ |
| 4 | Their last doorstopping epic , Blood In The Streets , predicted the recession , the downfall of communism and the stock market crash , it 's said . |
| 5 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 6 | ‘ He reminded me about it in the dressing room before the game , and if it 's said you 're not playing with enough desire you 've just got to swallow it and do the best you can . |
| 7 | It 's said to be unlucky to change a boat 's name . ’ |
| 8 | Willis was blamed for costly delays that plagued filming throughout , and it 's said that he antagonized his co-stars by constantly ad-libbing during takes , leaving the other actors speechless . |
| 9 | It 's said they were so close she 'd be after coming over when he disappeared . |
| 10 | It 's said that information is power-it 's also an immensely sensitive barometer to shifting status levels , whatever the weather . |
| 11 | It 's said that ‘ everyone sells ’ . |
| 12 | It 's said that you will always remember your first time . |
| 13 | It 's said that Beethoven had green eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's said he 's not aggressive enough . |
| 15 | They 'll go for small birds , insects and even worms — but then , it 's said that there 's as much protein in a decent-sized earthworm as in quarter of a pound of beef , so it must be nourishing , if not very appetising by most people 's standards ! |
| 16 | It 's said to be a symbolic tale with the casting out of the snakes related to the ousting of the old beliefs . |
| 17 | It 's said to eliminate the I/O bottleneck evident in many computers with high powered CPUs , and resulted in an 80% to 100% performance improvement when running the SPEC Consortium 's SDET benchmark . |
| 18 | It 's said that your new play ‘ The Power Of Darkness ’ deals with a world where sexual ignorance turns men and women into adversaries and where the irrational fear of famine turns into irrational greed . |
| 19 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
| 20 | It 's said tenants cause condensation , by boiling kettles . |
| 21 | ‘ When a man does something bad , it 's said ‘ That 's men for you — it 's part of the oppressive male patriarchy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's said he was a boorish man — moody , quarrelsome . |
| 23 | ‘ A place to dance — or so it 's said . |
| 24 | It 's said he can geld and cauterise a pony so expertly and swiftly there 's hardly time for blood to spill . ’ |
| 25 | Me father drove here once and found a dozen men in balaclavas in the yard , it 's said . |
| 26 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 27 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 28 | With a hundred rooms , it 's said to have a window for every day of the year . |
| 29 | It 's said that from little acorns mighty oaks do grow . |
| 30 | It 's said John Wayne started his acting career as an extra , so when you next watch Inspector Morse , look out for the people of Oxford who could be stars of the making . |