Example sentences of "[is] sometimes say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 2 | It is sometimes said that only the Exodus complaint stories and the one in Numbers 20 , which we will come to in a moment , deal with matters of life and death . |
| 3 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 4 | The rise of German national consciousness is sometimes said to date from the philosopher Fichte 's Addresses to the German Nation , delivered under Napoleonic occupation in 1806 . |
| 5 | This is sometimes said of Buddhism , but it would be more accurate to say that the question of God 's existence is a debate within Buddhism itself , and that the different forms of Buddhism are partially the product of different answers to the question of God 's existence . |
| 6 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 7 | It is sometimes said that this is a novel view of the question , that until very recently all political theorists believed in a general obligation to obey the law . |
| 8 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 9 | It is sometimes said , as though in defence of this double standard , that spiders and caddises achieve their feats of architecture by ‘ instinct ’ . |
| 10 | It is sometimes said that whoever keeps the minutes of a meeting holds the real power and in negotiating situations there is much truth in this . |
| 11 | It is sometimes said , particularly by those who are members of the clergy of an established religion , that very many people seek to use the administrations of a church , particularly a Christian church , but three times during their lives . |
| 12 | It is sometimes said that Watkins adopted such a variety of markers , including features of all types and ages , that his ideas can be discredited on this point alone . |
| 13 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 14 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |
| 15 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 16 | Disarmament , for example , is sometimes said to hinge on apparently technical problems such as the comparability of forces , or the possibility of verification . |
| 17 | It is sometimes said , that all propositions whatever , of which the predicate is a general name , do , in point of fact , affirm or deny resemblance … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The dynastic change from Tudors to Stuarts in 1603 is sometimes said to have been accompanied by a shift from optimism to gloom , and Bacon certainly took an unusually sober approach . |
| 20 | It is sometimes said of bodies such as the CICB that they owe their existence to exercises of ‘ prerogative ’ power , but in this context , this means the same thing as saying that the body was not set up by statute . |
| 21 | It is sometimes said that rules in the last two categories ‘ lack the force of law ’ , that is , they are not enforceable in a court . |
| 22 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |
| 23 | It is sometimes said that whereas occult sciences , such as alchemy and astrology , were static in their theoretical content , modern science has been progressive . |
| 24 | Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother . |
| 25 | It is sometimes said that all religion is mythological in form , and operates through concrete stories and symbols ; that religion must necessarily have what I have called a vehicle and that there can be no pure awareness of God . |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 27 | " They are not , as is sometimes said , like lost souls in limbo ; they are fellow travellers through a life which is impervious to most of their choices … |
| 28 | Though it is sometimes said that Hilbert 's theorem killed invariant theory , this is not entirely correct . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the nuclear family is sometimes said to be selfish and inward-looking , failing in its wider duty , especially towards the elderly . |
| 30 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |