Example sentences of "it is [verb] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 2 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 3 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 4 | It is said that he was an adventurer , one of those restless souls who led a small band of followers from the eternal peace of Avelorn to seek his fate in distant lands . |
| 5 | It is said that he stood transfixed before the Altar of Khaine , and even laid his hand on the hilt of the great weapon . |
| 6 | It is said that he stood before the altar and for a moment the Blade called to him . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 8 | It is said that he tried to dissuade his sons from studying mathematics so that the name of Gauss would remain synonymous with excellence . |
| 9 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 10 | It is said that he advised that the centre should be incorporated , and a company ( ‘ C.M.C. ’ ) was duly formed on 29 April 1983 . |
| 11 | It is said that he was of a delicate constitution in early life , and was accordingly placed in the care of his uncle , Mr Greener of Hallgarth , near Winlaton . |
| 12 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 13 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 14 | it is hoped that he will be able to play in the Tests , if not in many of the other matches . |
| 15 | And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service . |
| 16 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 17 | It is understood that he decided not to appeal after being told that a mental health review tribunal would be held soon after his return to Britain . |
| 18 | In the wake of Foster 's outburst it is understood that he faces a club fine . |
| 19 | It is understood that he was beaten with a wooden post before he was stabbed . |
| 20 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 21 | ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans . |
| 22 | It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy . |
| 23 | No record exists of his education and it is assumed that he was privately tutored . |
| 24 | So that every American president is a sort of half breed , a cross between Daniel Boone and Jesus Christ and that however corrupt and venal a politician he might have been before , once he assumes the White House it is assumed that he changes . |
| 25 | Although the French waterlily hybridiser Joseph Latour Marliac concentrated on producing hardy varieties it is believed that he used the semi tropical waterlily N. mexicana to create some of the popular varieties available today . |
| 26 | On the evidence of his poems , however , it is believed that he spent his childhood in Kent . |
| 27 | Conscious that Marie-Claire was listening to every word , Melissa hesitated for a moment before saying , ‘ It is believed that he took his own life . ’ |
| 28 | But , unless the proviso can be invoked , one must adopt the maxim that the more difficult ( short of impossibility ) is the defending advocate 's task , the more vital it is to see that he does not labour under an unfair disadvantage . |
| 29 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 30 | The full measure of that remark may be gauged when it is recalled that he was a senior member of the University Senate and a Fellow of Peterhouse , Cambridge . |