Example sentences of "[subord] it is said that " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If it is said that it is the use to which such information may be put that can be objectionable , the libertarian might well reply that gossip is an age-old way of passing the time and one of the cements of society . |
| 8 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 9 | If it is said that that word is capable of a neutral meaning , my answer is that , in order to read section 3(1) harmoniously with section 1(1) in its natural sense , ‘ assumption ’ must receive a unilateral meaning . |
| 10 | It sounds as if the project has the active backing of Novell Inc , because it is said that the software is being built atop a future release of the DR DOS MS-DOS-compatible operating system . |
| 11 | It sounds as if the project has the active backing of Novell Inc , because it is said that the software is being built atop a future release of the DR DOS MS-DOS-compatible operating system . |
| 12 | one which does not exclude the bailor from possession , an action for conversion against a third person is maintainable by either bailor or bailee ; by the bailee because he is in possession , by the bailor because it is said that his title to the goods draws with it the right to possession , that the bailee is something like his servant and that the possession of the one is equivalent to that of the other . |
| 13 | A warm bed and an alarm clock for company often work since it is said that the clock 's ticking sounds like mother 's heartbeat . |
| 14 | Presumably , since it is said that she lived to 127 , her sixties would be equivalent to our thirties or forties . |
| 15 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 16 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 17 | Nor were beards a feature of traditional Republican portraits , though it is said that in the early Republic the Romans wore beards and long hair . |
| 18 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 19 | An example of the first might be Mrs Thatcher , insofar as it is said that she dominated her Cabinets . |