Example sentences of "is said [that] [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
| 2 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |
| 3 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 4 | ‘ It is said that Watson replied , ‘ Is that you Mr Bell ? ’ but since there was only one telephone in the whole of God 's creation at the time , Bell ‘ s reply to HIM is not hard to guess at . |
| 5 | It is said that Peru has some of the best liars in the world — I could n't know , they are so good I believe them ! |
| 6 | It is said that Rundell 's had to satisfy so many orders at this time that Storr & Co. was obliged to work , in the way of dinner services , centre-pieces , and other ceremonial and domestic plate , some ten thousand ounces of silver a month . |
| 7 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |