Example sentences of "[be] often [verb] that [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 4 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 5 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |