Example sentences of "[conj] make a statement " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask me a question and engage me in conversation or make a statement that applies to me . |
| 2 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
| 3 | A technique for ensuring pupil participation , in which one student asks a question or makes a statement to the student seated next to him , who in turn makes a statement or asks a question of the student seated next to him . |
| 4 | I do not know whether that is being emulated elsewhere , so I am asking rather than making a statement . |
| 5 | The fuel card that makes a statement about you |
| 6 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend ask the Secretary of State for the Environment to investigate the matter and make a statement to the House about the deepening trough of local government in Labour-controlled parts of London ? |
| 8 | The magazine found that it could not justify the Crozier allegations which it had published , and agreed to apologise , pay damages and make a statement in open court publicly retracting the libel . |
| 9 | Ministers of course always determine for themselves whether they answer by means of a written question or whether they come to the despatch box and make a statement . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ What we want to do now is discover the total and make a statement . |
| 11 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 12 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 13 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 14 | I went to the police and made a statement . |
| 15 | Later on the evening of October 28 last , Miss Knox went to the police station with her father and made a statement . |
| 16 | It is understood that a teenage girl went with her mother to police in Southampton and made a statement which led to detectives reopening the inquiry . |
| 17 | The body was found after a man walked into a London police station this morning and made a statement . |
| 18 | Madam Speaker , arising out of question time today , the leader of the house the leader of the house told the house that the Prime Minister has made a further statement on the back to basics policy , now since this has er we are told er permeated the whole of government policy since the prime minister 's speech to the party conference last October , is n't it time er that the Prime Minister was asked not to give statements to correspondents and at er press conferences , but made a statement to this house about the back to basics policy and at the very least , placed a copy of his speech and his thinkings on the back to basics policy in the library . |