Example sentences of "it [be] said that [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Let it be said that committed , monogamous gays and non-gays have also been victims . |
2 | Never let it be said that Practical PC ignores the viewpoint of the end user ! |
3 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
4 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
5 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
6 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
7 | ( It is said that distinguished foreign guests of the Swiss Confederation visiting Bern are invariably taken out to dine somewhere in the Emmental . ) |
8 | It is said that Parliamentary materials are not readily available to , and understandable by , the citizen and his lawyers who should be entitled to rely on the words of Parliament alone to discover his position . |
9 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
10 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The Russian Federation Supreme Soviet sent a delegation to the region , but it was said that Russian Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi had exacerbated the situation by giving an ultimatum to the National Guard to disband on Oct. 10 , in return for the holding of presidential elections on Oct. 27 . |
13 | It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot . |
14 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |