Example sentences of "it [be] said [that] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is said that the investigation was ordered by a civil servant , not a Minister . |
| 32 | Gran Canaria , the third largest of the Canary Islands , is an island of contrasting scenery , with a superb climate all year round , particularly in the south where it is said that the temperature never varies by more than five degrees . |
| 33 | It is said that the stench is so appalling that no one can go near them now . |
| 34 | It is said that the prison director steals the fuel to warm his own house in Meknes . |
| 35 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 36 | The fishermen come back with their holds empty ; the islands have neither birds nor guano ; it is said that the strength of the smell of the gases from the millions of tons of decaying fish is such that it can blacken the hull of a passing ship — a phenomenon known as the Callao Painter . |
| 37 | Next , it is said that the volume of documents is very large . |
| 38 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 39 | IT IS said that the marketing and advertising course is now the hardest to enter in the University of Ulster , requiring ‘ A ’ -level grades that would have sent my generation scurrying off with aspirations of entering Oxford or Cambridge and a career in the fast track of the Civil Service . |
| 40 | Therefore it is said that the situation on their return would be intolerable and pointless . ’ |
| 41 | The argument is that section 47 can not stand because it is inconsistent with article 30 of the Treaty , a provision having direct effect which prohibits between member states quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect ; it is said that the prohibition against Sunday trading in this country has such an effect . |
| 42 | It is said that the men of Israel are to prepare themselves for three days for this awesome disclosure of God by not going near a woman ( Exod. |
| 43 | It is said that the plaintiffs endeavoured to run the business because of the negligent advice received by them from Mr on the twenty second of October the plaintiffs were unable to withdraw from the contract . |
| 44 | It is said that the blood of the dragon flowed out and made the hill-top sterile . |
| 45 | It was said that a massacre had followed the surrender of General Wheeler at Cawnpore and that delicate English girls had been stripped naked and dragged through the streets of Delhi . |
| 46 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 47 | In fact , it was said that a plant of balm In the garden would ensure that the bees never left their hive to set up home elsewhere , and since sugar was highly priced in medieval days , honey carried a considerable premium . |
| 48 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 49 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 50 | It was said that the act had to be directed or aimed at the victim . |
| 51 | In a more recent case it was said that the evidence called must be commensurate with the seriousness of the allegations made ( per Butler-Sloss LJ in R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 52 | It was said that the Kahanamokus were the descendants of Kamehameha the Great , but Duke inherited his name from his father , a Honolulu police captain who was named after the then Duke of Edinburgh following his visit to the Islands in 1869 . |
| 53 | In 1900 a dispute arose because it was said that the Taff Vale Railway Company had victimized a trade unionist who led a wage demand . |
| 54 | It was said that the planners threatened all of this by placing obstacles in the way of local people in their efforts to fulfil their lives . |
| 55 | The only case to apply this approach to the running of covenants is Boyer v Warbey [ 1953 ] 1 QB 234 , in which Denning LJ stated : " I know that before the Judicature Act 1873 , it was said that the doctrine of covenants running with the land only applied to covenants under seal and not to agreements under hand … |
| 56 | From the same area — around Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian alps — it was said that the mood was getting ‘ noticeably worse by the day ’ on account of the provisioning difficulties . |
| 57 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 58 | Because a mosque stood next door it was said that the cinema had been rejected by Allah as an unworthy neighbour . |
| 59 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 60 | In 1912 it was said that the rail freight yards of the city handled 112,000 tons of freight per day . |