Example sentences of "[is] said [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is said that Wallace 's writings after his return to England persuaded Darwin to publish The Origin of Species . |
2 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
3 | Next , it is said that lawyers and judges are not familiar with Parliamentary procedures and will therefore have difficulty in giving proper weight to the Parliamentary materials . |
4 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
5 | Retribution soon followed , possibly by rock fall and it is said that Simon 's bones still lie a'mouldering it , the depths — no-one , you see , had the courage to go down into his mine and search for him . |
6 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
7 | It is said that lords and ladies and royalty were entertained here , and known that George Fox , the founder of the Quakers , preached here . |
8 | Then it is said that court time will be taken up by considering a mass of Parliamentary material and long arguments about its significance , thereby increasing the expense of litigation . |
9 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
10 | It is said that Paul Jones , the American privateer , fired a salvo at Rolston Hall to mark his hatred of the then owner , William Brough , Marshall of High Court of Admiralty , who was entitled to hang Paul Jones as a pirate if he was captured . |
11 | It is said that Colman 's Mustard made their money from the amount of mustard left on the plate . |
12 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
13 | It is said that William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 are authorities to the contrary . |
14 | In addition , it is said that gas is cheaper , but that is not true on two counts . |
15 | It is said that Nos. 25 and 34 were taken out of service and loaned to the War Office for use as Searchlight cars . |
16 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |
17 | Rumours abound ; it is said that Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here after his defeat in 1745 , and it is also suggested that the house was a centre of smuggling as it stands a mere hundred yards from the head of the Solway Firth . |
18 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
19 | It is said that Joshua Reynolds , one of the Grand Old Men of English art , was instrumental in defining the successful modern portrait . |
20 | It is said that assumptions on which he was apparently prepared to proceed have now been shown to be unsound . |
21 | It is said that Netwise could not afford to continue financing the European effort once the cash had dried up . |
22 | It is said that Alexander himself paced out the plan for his Egyptian city before hurrying off to conquer the rest of the world . |
23 | It is said that vegetarians ( who do not eat meat or fish ) are healthier and live longer than meat-eaters . |
24 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
25 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
26 | It is said that James VI frequented the Sheep 's Head Inn and in 1580 presented an embellished ram 's head and horns for adorning the bar . |
27 | It is said that tunnels once used by escapers from the castle still exist beneath the grounds . |
28 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
29 | This may be why it is said that couples who pray together , stay together . |
30 | It is said that yaks ' milk is sometimes used and in Italy buffalos ' milk is made into cheese . |