Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his meeting with Jorge Mas Canosa , leader of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation ( CANF ) , in late December [ see p. 38669 ] , the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev was reported as saying that all aid to Cuba would be halted . |
| 2 | On March 31 , Sierra Leonean commanders were reported as saying that 2,150 men of the 3,000-strong national army had occupied part of Lofa County in Liberia . |
| 3 | This proposal has become known as " Saint-Venant 's principle " , often interpreted as implying that local eccentricities of stress are not felt in distances greater than the largest linear dimension of the area over which the forces are distributed . |
| 4 | In one major respect it is different , though : her two pauses of 0.6 seconds ( lines 11 and 13 ) are interpreted as signals that other speakers may now have the floor . |
| 5 | On Sept. 27 the National Human Rights Monitoring Group was cited as saying that 1,200 detainees had been freed , in accordance with a High Committee of State ( HCS ) decision of Aug. 8 , but that 4,000 people were still held . |
| 6 | 3.12 Any provisions in this Lease referring to the consent or approval of the Landlord shall be construed as also requiring the consent or approval of any mortgagee of the Premises and any superior Landlord where such consent shall be required but nothing in this Lease shall be construed as implying that any obligation is imposed upon any mortgagee or any superior Landlord not unreasonably to refuse any such consent or approval |
| 7 | It was widely misinterpreted as suggesting that small firms were particularly important in the process of job generation . |
| 8 | On Sept. 4 a government source was quoted as announcing that two members of the presidential guard had been charged with Boudiaf 's assassination . |
| 9 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
| 10 | The armed forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Robert Guëi , who had been appointed in May 1990 with a mandate to eradicate indiscipline in the army , was quoted as saying that 20 men , the most senior a sergeant , had been caught red-handed . |
| 11 | Turkish President Turgut Özal , speaking on March 10 during a thee-day visit to Turkey by Iranian First Vice-President Hasan Habibi , was quoted as saying that any attempt to safeguard regional Gulf security would be " meaningless " without Iranian participation . |
| 12 | Earlier Wittgenstein was quoted as saying that psychological verbs are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not . ’ |