Example sentences of "[is] say that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . |
| 2 | It is said that the final preparations owed their antibacterial activity to the phenol which they contained as a preservative . |
| 3 | In so far as it is the case that , in the classical doctrine of the trinity , it is said that the three persons are alike in all save their mutual relations , when we are speaking of Christ as God , as the second person of the trinity , it can not be said of Christ that he is ‘ male ’ . |
| 4 | That is to say that every individual lives according to a highly structured set of personal obligations which he or she must continually fulfil . |
| 5 | For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative . |
| 6 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |