Example sentences of "it [be] say that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 2 | Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company . |
| 3 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 4 | It is said that two Feltham type cars , cut off from Telford Avenue depôt , had to spend a night in Thornton Heath depôt . |
| 5 | Many takeovers in Europe are friendly and it is said that two in three are negotiated without merchant bankers . |
| 6 | Now the first day is more for dealers than debutantes : it is said that 10 pictures are sold every minute . |
| 7 | It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ . |
| 8 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 9 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 10 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 11 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 12 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 13 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 14 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |