Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] say 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |