Example sentences of "it is said [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is said that private gardens occupy 3 per cent of the land surface of Britain . |
2 | Although novel in this country , it is said that similar operations have been mounted in the United States . |
3 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
4 | ( It is said that distinguished foreign guests of the Swiss Confederation visiting Bern are invariably taken out to dine somewhere in the Emmental . ) |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It is said that Renish Farm at Waxholme was once used as a Quaker meeting house . |
8 | 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 . |