Example sentences of "is say [conj] [adj] [noun pl] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the first day is more for dealers than debutantes : it is said that 10 pictures are sold every minute . |
| 2 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
| 3 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 4 | What concerns me is that , in effect , the Minister is saying that all campaigns are condemned before they begin . |
| 5 | If the Minister is saying that hon. Members are not allowed to do that without running the risk of being accused of slurs , he is abusing parliamentary procedure . |
| 6 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |
| 7 | The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument . |