Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] said that [adj] [noun] " 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 | An official announcement issued in Kathmandu on Jan. 3 said that Hussain Ibrahim Zaki ( Maldives ) had succeeded K. K. Bhargava ( India ) as Secretary-General of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-Operation . |
| 4 | The OECD in its report published in July 1991 said that economic growth had slowed in 1990 to 3.5 per cent compared with growth of 4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 5 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on July 3 said that further information would be requested from the Libyan government , following a meeting between the Libyan ambassador to Tunisia , Abd al-Atti Obeidi , and other Libyan officials and United Kingdom representatives at the Geneva headquarters of the UN on June 9 . |
| 6 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | The Guardian of Feb. 12 said that Kuwaiti refugees arriving in al-Ruweishid , Jordan , had confirmed an outbreak of cholera and worsening food shortages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A report in October 1989 said that many people were leaving the social work profession : low morale , increased pressure and poor pay all contributed to this exodus . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some official sources on June 30 said that one gunman had been killed in the exchange of fire but that a second was under interrogation . |