Example sentences of "it is say that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that a Dark Elf assassin emerged from his hiding place beneath the piles of bones and struck Tethlis down with a poisoned blade . |
| 2 | In Cornwall , south-western England , it is said that a giant white hare named Looe gambols along the clifftops on evenings when there is a full moon . |
| 3 | It is said that a British ornithologist asked his aborigine guide what the birds were and the guide said , in aboriginese , ‘ good food ’ : I suppose we 're lucky he did n't say ‘ birds , you dickhead ’ . |
| 4 | Thus it is said that a particular decision was taken by Sir Bryan Carsberg rather than by Oftel . |
| 5 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 6 | However , in another report ( EP , 26 January 1987 ) it is said that the average proportion of all contributions to the Federal Fund used for direct investment has not exceeded 2.5 per cent . |
| 7 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 8 | It is said that the masked lady died there in childbirth . |
| 9 | But it is said that the Kal yuga gives way to the Sat yuga when the manifested power of the Life Force has reached its lowest ebb . |
| 10 | Nor am I impressed by the floodgates argument — it is said that the Divisional Court would be overwhelmed by applications to review visitors ' decisions . |
| 11 | It is said that the final preparations owed their antibacterial activity to the phenol which they contained as a preservative . |
| 12 | It is said that the reclining river-god is a Hellenistic invention . |
| 13 | By handling an object , it is said that the sensitive person can not only identify its owner , but describe his character and even his whereabouts . |
| 14 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 15 | This is not to argue that these practices should not be abhorred and punished by society but it is to say that the underlying tendency may be addictive in nature and may therefore require the specific treatment appropriate for any addictive disease . |