Example sentences of "it is said that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
| 32 | It is said that these underground beings , djinn , rise in the half light of pre-dawn and in the twilight . |
| 33 | Most infections occur in childhood , although it is said that those adults who have escaped infection when young may be infected by their own children , a reversal of roles from congenital syphilis . |
| 34 | It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy , they first make mad , and it is clear that Tory Ministers are mad . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such . |