Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] say [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A joint CRN-CCAOD communiqué broadcast on March 30 said that free elections at municipal , legislative and presidential level would be held before Jan. 1 , 1992 , and that the army would return to barracks on Jan. 20 . |
| 2 | A Ukrainian Defence Ministry statement of Jan. 2 said that all troops in Ukraine , except strategic nuclear forces , were directly subordinate to the Ukrainian President . |
| 3 | Western press reports from Xian on March 18 said that three intellectuals were sentenced to prison terms of three to five years , including Li Guiren , editor of the Shaanxi province Hua Yue Publishing House , which had published works by the dissident journalist Liu Binyan [ see also p. 37338 ] . |
| 4 | The Guardian of Feb. 12 said that Kuwaiti refugees arriving in al-Ruweishid , Jordan , had confirmed an outbreak of cholera and worsening food shortages . |
| 5 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 6 | A Greenpeace report in October 1990 said that 46,000 tonnes of waste were known to have been imported by Poland from the West ( especially West Germany ) since 1984 . |
| 7 | He had been temporary chargé d'affaires at the Netherlands embassy in Baghdad from September to October 1990 , but the Tunisian Foreign Ministry on March 1 said that initial investigations suggested no political motives . |