Example sentences of "it is often said [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is often said that the two most difficult and specialist design areas within a hotel are the kitchen and the leisure facility .
2 It is often said that more damage is done inside the hangar than out !
3 It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification .
4 It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work .
5 Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening .
6 It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel .
7 It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent .
8 It is often said that Britain 's membership of the Community is good for British business , and attention is drawn to the volume of our trade with the Community .
9 It is often said that the best index of the geography of an area is the distribution of population in space and time .
10 It is often said that anyone who works in intelligence for more than ten years becomes slightly crazy .
11 It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school .
12 It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults .
13 It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West .
14 For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould .
15 It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own .
16 It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation .
17 It is often said that many young people lose interest in poetry , and even stories , as they go through secondary school .
18 It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop .
19 It is often said that Godiva chocolates should not be valued in pounds , but rather in carats .
20 It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 .
21 It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior .
22 It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women .
23 It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him .
24 It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified .
25 It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's .
26 It is often said that delegation is the art of management .
27 It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid .
28 It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs .
29 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
30 It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) .
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