Example sentences of "be sometimes said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 2 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 3 | It is sometimes said of bodies such as the CICB that they owe their existence to exercises of ‘ prerogative ’ power , but in this context , this means the same thing as saying that the body was not set up by statute . |
| 4 | The rise of German national consciousness is sometimes said to date from the philosopher Fichte 's Addresses to the German Nation , delivered under Napoleonic occupation in 1806 . |
| 5 | Disarmament , for example , is sometimes said to hinge on apparently technical problems such as the comparability of forces , or the possibility of verification . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the nuclear family is sometimes said to be selfish and inward-looking , failing in its wider duty , especially towards the elderly . |
| 7 | Public disagreement about a school is sometimes said to be bad for the education of its pupils . |
| 8 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |