Example sentences of "is [adv] said that [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is normally said that as one goes further up this ascent of languages , the code becomes progressively more like a natural language such as English . |
| 2 | If is often said that as people get older they care less what other people think , but it has never been so true as in the last 25 years , when women who were brought up to propitiate the more powerful sex gradually realised that it was no longer necessary — or , at least , not always necessary — to do so . |
| 3 | It is often said that as one market slows down another opens up and all is not doom and gloom . |
| 4 | It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified . |
| 5 | It is sometimes said that whereas occult sciences , such as alchemy and astrology , were static in their theoretical content , modern science has been progressive . |
| 6 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |