Example sentences of "[verb] said [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meacher has said of the unions : |
| 2 | I am sure that the Minister is aware that the Midland bank , which has done much to develop child care , has said of the Government recently that they keep calling its representatives to conferences at which they urge the importance of child care , but they do nothing . |
| 3 | The Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund has said of the decline of the murrelet " this is further evidence that our forest ecosystems no longer are capable of supporting the species that depend on them " . |
| 4 | Artist John Ward has said of the Prince 's work : ‘ He works for the love of it ; seriously , modestly , with much thought as well as appetite . ’ |
| 5 | The Chinese government has said for the first time that it intends to try to stop the tiger trade . |
| 6 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 7 | However I am not so enamoured of the sound of my own voice that , bearing in mind what er Dr has said about the amount of business , I would insist on inflicting it upon it if someone would be prepared to second it and the convenor and the assembly be prepared to accept it . |
| 8 | I , I 'm a general practitioner and I would like to back up initially what the convenor has said about the study pack that has come on child abuse but I have a question . |
| 9 | It is important for the parties to realize that the conciliation officer will tell the other side what each has said about the claim . |
| 10 | I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has said about the unacceptable level of unemployment in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ? |
| 12 | I have listened with care to what the hon. Gentleman has said about the matter . |
| 13 | Erm I think I 'd like to pick on er up on something that Mr has said about the strategy underlying the er approved structure plan . |
| 14 | One of the erm I mean I think it has to be said that we erm I support everything that er Chris has said about the the effect of traffic relief . |
| 15 | And it would have to be found er if we were to move to the er position that Mr Curtis has said about the total need , it would have to be found somewhere else . |
| 16 | The most important thing I think is erm what Charles has said about the house erm is quite important . |
| 17 | In our last meeting John the need to do a little thing that would the district but I felt that because of the time pushing that wha , what 's his name has said about the erm the River |
| 18 | Great I know the er , Dave has said about the er |
| 19 | The fact that one can always see what one has said as a string of words , which might be interpreted in this way or that , does not entail that whenever one says something there is an accompanying interpretation going through one 's head . |
| 20 | As a group of German doctors has said in a letter to The Lancet , the AIDS epidemic does not even indicate a new infectious agent but ‘ merely the introduction of an old pathogen into a group whose promiscuous lifestyles would ensure rapid spread ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You can come up and look around , ’ Digby has said in a personal message to the Ayatollah , ‘ he 's not here . |
| 22 | The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project . |
| 23 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 24 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 25 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 26 | The government has said in the past that if it was less than gimlet-eyed where KIO was concerned , it was because Spain needed foreign investment . |
| 27 | The Leader of the Opposition has said in the House that CAP reform would mean that he would take money from British farmers and spend it on farmers in southern countries . |
| 28 | I said to the Leader of the Opposition that ’ jerk ’ is not on the list of unparliamentary expressions but , bearing in mind the nature of this debate , it would help the House if he refined what he has said in the interests of good order . |
| 29 | He will , of course , know that the Leader of the Opposition has said in the past that ’ Sweden is certainly a model for us ’ . |
| 30 | Labour 's John Smith has said in the Commons that the Prime Minister 's authority and that of his Government is in tatters . |