Example sentences of "be said [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has often been said that the majority of European farmers live poor , but die rich . |
| 2 | Indeed , it has been said that the north-west of Scotland has a higher sustained wind speed than any other inhabited part of the world ( Gloyne 1968 ) . |
| 3 | It has been said that the Imperial Court was more successful in mounting great set pieces than in its day-to-day running , and indeed so successful was it in this field that an impression was created that the whole of the period was one long spectacle — the so-called fête impériale — whose only aim was entertainment , prodigality and licence . |
| 4 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |
| 5 | It has been said that the Church has a responsibility to ‘ engage the culture of our nation with the gospel . ’ |
| 6 | It has been said that the name Lowthorpe or Logetorp could have meant ‘ Law-village ’ in ancient Norse . |
| 7 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 8 | It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency . |
| 9 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 10 | It has been said that the mission to Dessau on May 28 was the roughest the Group ever experienced . |
| 11 | It has often been said that the decisive development since Darwin was a new synthesis , in the 1920s and 1930s , of Mendel on heredity and Darwin on selection . |
| 12 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 13 | It follows from what has just been said that the identity of the respondent is not of much importance in defining the scope of judicial review . |
| 14 | It has been said that the theory of the Oedipus complex is culturally ethnocentric , and that in other cultures , with different family systems , there is no Oedipus complex . |
| 15 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 16 | It has been said that the word ’ semantics ’ refers to the analysis of the meaning of single sentences . |
| 17 | It has been said that the real question in the case is the degree of restriction that can be imposed upon a sovereign State in negotiating with another State in matters that affect the vital interests of third States . |
| 18 | But for the fact that the rioters supported the Government , itself widely believed to regard the riots with tacit approval , it could have been said that the country was on the point of revolution . |
| 19 | para 4 : It has also been said that the problem of induction is … |
| 20 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 21 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 22 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 23 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 24 | The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment . |
| 25 | It has been said that the Irish Sea and even the Bristol Channel ( just outside my window as I write ) are older than the Atlantic . |
| 26 | It has been said that the history of the landscape of Britain is ‘ one long assart ’ ( clearance ) . |
| 27 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 28 | It has been said that the failure of this railway to attract passengers was due primarily to the tedious roundabout rail journey to Newtown via Abermule as compared with the direct and cheaper approach to the market town by bus . |
| 29 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 30 | Finally , it has been said that the Department of Trade and Industry bears the mantle of the most unsuccessful Department of State . |