Example sentences of "so it be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though my father was a regular and popular customer , discretion was often the best part of valour ( so it is said ) . |
| 2 | Yes , so it is said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 6 | 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 ? " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It actually made him smirk … so it was said . |
| 13 | Even more bitter were the attacks on the behaviour of the demi-mondaines who did not hesitate to parade ‘ the profits of their vice ’ in front of decent folk and whose example , so it was said , influenced young women of good society : ‘ Among young women who count amongst the best bred and the best brought up , there are those who do not hesitate to copy the manners and behaviour of girls of easy virtue . ’ |
| 14 | A tale of when Saltash was a busy riverside fishing town and , so it was said , Saltash lads and maidens were noted everywhere for their smart trick of turning their hand to everything , including fishing , gardening , boat building , oyster dredging and pulling at the regatta for prizes , is that of boatswain 's mate Charles Hoskins and his sweetheart , Bessie Lee . |
| 15 | Early reports had the sadhus sweeping the Mughal army in front of them — until , so it was said , Aurangzeb deployed strange magic against them . |