Example sentences of "[is] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 2 | ‘ She can twist me round her little finger ’ , is said with glowing pride . |
| 3 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 4 | If one syllable of our ‘ nonsense word ’ is said with a pitch that is noticeably different from that of the others , this will have a strong tendency to produce the effect of prominence . |
| 5 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 6 | While acknowledging the importance of contemporary political debates , however , little is said on how these local crises were perceived and demands articulated . |
| 7 | The egocentric and performative aspects of mental and speech acts by historical individuals who use such expressions to make statements , ask questions , etc. , naturally enough , often have a direct bearing on the meaning of what is said on a given occasion , and this points to an area of phenomenological problems that needs to be carefully explored if the complexity of the problem of meaning is to be fully understood . |
| 8 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |
| 9 | I shall certainly listen carefully to what is said on that matter and give it full consideration . |
| 10 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 11 | Every syllable is said on some pitch ; pitch in speech is closely related to the frequency of vibration of the vocal folds and to the musical notion of low- and high-pitched notes . |
| 12 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 13 | It is said above that one must take one of two positions : one is that stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word ( see for example Jones ( 1975 ) , sections 920–1 ) . |
| 14 | It should be clear from what is said above that from the purely practical classroom point of view , generative phonology has little to offer and could well create confusion . |
| 15 | Look at the start of the play — Catherine is devoted to Eddie and Eddie is kind and even jokes about her independence — this is seen on page 21 , when Eddie says that Catherine will move away when she gets a job ( but this is said without resentment ) and Catherine denies it . |
| 16 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 17 | When consonant clues are fewer , it takes longer to translate what is said into sense , but this does not mean that one 's brain is slower ! |
| 18 | As Britain 's only national pop music station at present , Radio 1 is most likely to interest aspiring rock and pop musicians , so I will explain its workings and policies in some detail ( although much of what is said about Radio 1 will also be applicable to Radio 2 ) . |
| 19 | Much more is said about ‘ substances ’ and ‘ modes ’ , and the distinction between them is important in Locke ‘ s theory of knowledge . |
| 20 | Less is said about his recent life and his marriages . |
| 21 | However , when we look closely at what is said about these various gods , we find that the god chosen by ( or who chooses ) Israel is quite unlike all the others . |
| 22 | Little is said about how this process works apart from the suggestion that a number of presentations of a given object or event may be needed if invariant aspects are to be distinguished from incidental features that may vary from one occasion to another . |
| 23 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 24 | More is said about the subject of safety in the ALs of working and playing . |
| 25 | More is said about the importance of visiting on page 279 . |
| 26 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 27 | A good deal is said about nuclear proliferation and Goldschmidt staunchly defends France 's uncompromising stance on trading in uranium . |
| 28 | When we feel good we look good , so much that is said about health might equally well come under the heading of beauty . |
| 29 | Conversely , while the Act provides that dividing up residential units to create more does specifically require consent , nothing is said about reducing the number of residential units or , for that matter , splitting or amalgamating any other type of unit of use . |
| 30 | Sympathy is often centred upon the younger family , little is said about its indirect effects on old people , who themselves are often reluctant to complain . |