Example sentences of "[is] [adv] said that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is often said that the pure watercolourist does not use any white pigment , relying entirely on the white of the paper . |
| 3 | It is often said that the Eastern fathers neglected the cross in favour of the incarnation . |
| 4 | Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms . |
| 5 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 6 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 7 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |