Example sentences of "it [is] said that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
| 2 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
| 3 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
| 4 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 5 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 6 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 7 | As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such . |