Example sentences of "it is often said " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is often said that because the sample was so unrepresentative of humanity as a whole , Freud 's generalizations about man are unjustified . |
| 32 | It is often said that Japanese management concentrates on the Soft S 's whilst Western management concentrates on the Hard S's . |
| 33 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 34 | The scientific revolution , it is often said , saw the separation of science from religion . |
| 35 | Certain attributes are said to be ‘ masculine ’ or ‘ feminine ’ , ‘ complementing ’ ( it is often said ) the other . |
| 36 | It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid . |
| 37 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 38 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 39 | It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) . |
| 40 | Men , it is often said , give their allegiance not to the government of the day but to the state . |
| 41 | It is often said , persuasively , that men entered into social relations in the course of using or transforming the non-human material world . |
| 42 | It is often said that by tradition they have a right to judicial appointment when vacancies occur and that this is particularly true of appointment to the office of Lord Chief Justice . |
| 43 | It is often said that most congenital abnormalities are untreatable , but this overlooks the great contribution of tertiary prevention , and surgical techniques are constantly improving . |
| 44 | It is often said that you can discover a great deal about a person 's character by the books on their shelves . |
| 45 | It is often said about notorious criminals that they have no feelings . |
| 46 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 47 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 48 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |
| 49 | It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check . |
| 50 | In particular , it is often said that indirect taxes are less visible ( than direct ) , being to some extent hidden in the quoted price of the good . |
| 51 | The greater attention given by sociologists , in recent years , to nationalism and the nation state , has been accompanied , it is often said , by a more critical attitude towards these phenomena . |
| 52 | It is often said that chess helps broaden the mind , promoting logical thought and forward planning . |
| 53 | It is often said that the quantitative increase in Trident firepower is to accommodate , or seek to pierce , the anti-ballistic missile defences that have been established in the Soviet Union . |
| 54 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 55 | It is often said that no political recovery from the trauma of Soissons was possible . |
| 56 | It is often said that as one market slows down another opens up and all is not doom and gloom . |
| 57 | It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient . |
| 58 | It is often said that there can be no confidence in iniquity . |
| 59 | It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners . |
| 60 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |