Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] say that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estate agents right across the country are swinging back into action and The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors says that rising activity has continued this month . |
| 2 | According to the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 28 , pro-Israel lobbyists said that 62 senators had undertaken to endorse the guarantees in the event of a vote . |
| 3 | Although the presence of the foreign troops helped to restore calm , official sources said that 117 people had died by Sept. 25 and at least 1,500 had been injured . |
| 4 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 5 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 6 | How many times have we heard women who themselves are single parents saying that equal pay is wrong because men have families to support ? |
| 7 | The NGOs are worried that local people will be excluded from their traditional lands , although an ODA spokesman has denied that this will be the case , while Indian officials say that voluntary agreements will ensure protection for the more " ecologically sensitive " areas . |
| 8 | The Vietnamese and their Cambodian friends say that any peace plan so far offered could easily be subverted by the Khmers Rouges . |
| 9 | On Jan. 19 SADF had announced drastic cuts throughout the Army , Air Force and Navy , including reduced personnel numbers and cancellation of 11 weapons procurements , to render the armed forces " smaller and more cost effective " ; taken together with shortened national service , military analysts said that total personnel could be reduced by 30-40 per cent . |
| 10 | A joint declaration by opposition groups and government parties issued after the country 's first round-table talks said that free elections should be held by next May 6 at the latest . |
| 11 | The new rules say that all toys made after January 1990 must carry a European safety tag . |
| 12 | Eyewitness accounts from Western journalists said that 200 troops fired on the unarmed crowd for several minutes before moving in to beat and arrest the survivors . |
| 13 | Diplomatic sources say that other South-east Asian countries which , like Hong Kong , have offered a port of first asylum to the fleeing Vietnamese , are closely watching the mandatory repatriation programme . |
| 14 | Unconfirmed reports said that other issues discussed and left unresolved were the question of the sale of Chinese missiles to Pakistan and Indian misgivings about recent proposals for a South Asian nuclear-free zone . |
| 15 | Unconfirmed reports said that 50 people had died after troops mutinied at Kisangani on Dec. 21 . |
| 16 | Other reports said that some republics , notably Kazakhstan and Russia , had also agreed to sell arms to Taiwan and Yemen . |
| 17 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |