Example sentences of "make [art] [adj] statement " in BNC.
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| 1 | In presenting the report to the national church extension committee , he made the astonishing statement that there is no longer any dire poverty in Scotland . |
| 2 | In a published argument between Scholes and Hirsch , the former made the following statement , on the assumption that the conservative Hirsch would disagree with it : |
| 3 | Giving evidence to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in the 1950s , Lord Denning ( Gowers , 1953 : para 53 ) made the following statement : |
| 4 | Better Schools , which made the definitive statement on this general review , discussed teacher appraisal in the context of the management of the teaching force . |
| 5 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 6 | Nevertheless , when Fox made the preposterous statement that ‘ This is simply shocking , they might as well make me professor of Poetry , ’ Lewis responded , ‘ Well , we will . ’ |
| 7 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 8 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 9 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 10 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 11 | The Black Country Development Corporation has begun proceedings to buy the pub but it has made no public statement giving its reasons . |
| 12 | Nobody even made a simple statement . |
| 13 | He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it . |
| 14 | It should , in my opinion , only be in the rare cases where the very issue of interpretation which the courts are called on to resolve has been addressed in Parliamentary debate and where the promoter of the legislation has made a clear statement directed to that very issue , that reference to Hansard should be permitted . |
| 15 | Fredric Jameson has made a vigorous statement of this difficulty : |
| 16 | Toni Chambers has made a full statement to police saying I did the robbery . |
| 17 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 18 | It would , I consider , be wrong to read it as requiring that in every case where a witness is shown to have made a previous statement inconsistent with his evidence at the trial , the jury should be directed that such evidence should be regarded as unreliable : see Driscoll v. The Queen ( 1977 ) 51 A.L.J.R. 731 , 740 , per Gibbs J. , with whom Barwick C.J. agreed , at p. 734 . |
| 19 | President Ishaq has made a dignified statement about his enthusiasm for upholding the constitution . |
| 20 | The dead man 's sister , Sara Glynn , has made a fresh statement in which she claims to have seen her brother , Alfred , leaving the scene shortly after the time at which Matthew must have died . ’ |
| 21 | In 1838 he had made an important statement of evidence before the select committee on workmen 's combinations . |
| 22 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 23 | The former will make a strong statement , enhancing the rest of the display , whereas the latter could result in a fussy mess in which it becomes impossible to enjoy any of the plants as individuals . |
| 24 | Tomorrow , Mr Kinnock will make a personal statement about his future as leader of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | I will make a full statement on Monday . |
| 26 | He said a woman should aske for the senior registrar and make a full statement . |
| 27 | Whatever the reason , can the committee make a public statement regarding this lack of publication , as another climbing season is upon us and I still have no answers to give my customers . |
| 28 | He said PLO leader Yasser Arafat will make a public statement recognising the state of Israel and , immediately afterwards , Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will make a statement recognising the PLO . |
| 29 | ‘ You suggested that I should make a fresh statement . ’ |
| 30 | Similarly subsequent facts will not make a false statement true . |