Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [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 | But when Alice said , ‘ Fräulein , repeat after me : ‘ We do n't need a baby here … ’ she had smiled and nodded that great head , floppy on its neck even with her stiff collar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Finally , Griffiths was concerned to ensure that the quality of services was regularly inspected and suggested that local authority registration and inspection units should be strengthened and supported by a national inspectorate . |
| 7 | 4.1.2 It is understood and agreed that all IEATP grant payments relating to the Project will be made to the Lead Organization as principal . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 9 | ONE ELEGANT RELIC hardly describes the superb first prize that awaits the winner of our April competition but it is the correct answer to the anagram posed and wins that same prize for Lesley Allen of Hartshill , Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 10 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rather , it identifies the way in which the decision as to who should operate the telescope was taken and reports that many university astronomers felt the possibility of alternative organisational arrangements should have been publicly debated . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | It was widely misinterpreted as suggesting that small firms were particularly important in the process of job generation . |
| 15 | 4.5 It is the responsibility of each workplace manager to ensure a local system for summoning support is devised and to ensure that all staff are given information relating to any future arrangements as well as these Guidelines . |
| 16 | Various authors have suggested or claimed that working-class women are satisfied with housework while middle-class women are not . |
| 17 | The circular changed and allowed that joint finance money to be paid over a much longer period and virtually in perpetuity . |
| 18 | On Sept. 4 a government source was quoted as announcing that two members of the presidential guard had been charged with Boudiaf 's assassination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |