Example sentences of "it [is] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's said that information is power-it 's also an immensely sensitive barometer to shifting status levels , whatever the weather . |
| 4 | It 's said that ‘ everyone sells ’ . |
| 5 | It 's said that you will always remember your first time . |
| 6 | It 's said that Beethoven had green eyes . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | ‘ It 's said that if the flame-retardant with which they 're treated could be bottled it 'd be the first guaranteed aphrodisiac . ’ |
| 12 | It 's said that from little acorns mighty oaks do grow . |
| 13 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 14 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 15 | It 's to say that there maybe some rather simple scientific idea behind some idea , but in practice there are so many other constraints and limitations , but all these have to be taken into account . |
| 16 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 17 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 18 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 19 | It is said that the prison director steals the fuel to warm his own house in Meknes . |
| 20 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
| 21 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is said that when he heard his own voice on the radio , some seven years after writing this letter , Lewis was surprised and in some measure disconcerted . |
| 24 | In the Far East it is said that a girl is not eligible for marriage until she can cook a perfect bowl of rice . |
| 25 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 26 | It is said that yaks ' milk is sometimes used and in Italy buffalos ' milk is made into cheese . |
| 27 | It is said that Mr Shamir appointed Rehavam Zeevi , who runs a party called Moledat ( Homeland ) , as minister-without-portfolio in his inner cabinet mainly for coalition reasons : he wanted to increase his narrow majority and to avoid being attacked from outside it by the extreme right . |
| 28 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 29 | It is said that the men of Israel are to prepare themselves for three days for this awesome disclosure of God by not going near a woman ( Exod. |
| 30 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |