Example sentences of "said [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 2 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 3 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 4 | has said that actual damage is an essential ingredient in unintentional trespass to the person and if this is so there is no reason for distinguishing the case of trespass to goods . |
| 5 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 6 | If it is said that that word is capable of a neutral meaning , my answer is that , in order to read section 3(1) harmoniously with section 1(1) in its natural sense , ‘ assumption ’ must receive a unilateral meaning . |
| 7 | The regional office 's particular concerns are that the wording of the policy appears unduly restrictive because within policy P P G within P P G seven itself , no only as is the reference to protecting the countryside , there is also considerable reference to rural diversification and promoting the rural economy where as as erm the county council have said that that P P G refers to most of that development taking place er within are anticipated to take place within the rural villages and and small towns in the countryside . |
| 8 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 9 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 10 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 11 | In another study , researchers have said that premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood than youngsters born after a full-term pregnancy . |
| 12 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
| 13 | It is often said that Muslim men think it a matter of pride that their women should n't work . |
| 14 | It must be said that continental discussions of some of these ideas read rather strangely , at least to the authors of this book . |
| 15 | President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania has said that poor countries enjoy two basic rights : ‘ To sell cheap and to buy dear . ’ |
| 16 | It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent . |
| 17 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 18 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 19 | Although the DoT has said that all options are still open , the consultants are thought likely to recommend the construction of a road from the Chelmsford by-pass to the M25 . |
| 20 | ICI has said that all halon production will cease by 1995 , and supports government intervention through regulation and financial incentives to set up a halon bank linked to an international regulatory system . |
| 21 | It is sometimes said that all religion is mythological in form , and operates through concrete stories and symbols ; that religion must necessarily have what I have called a vehicle and that there can be no pure awareness of God . |
| 22 | Indeed it might be said that one year on this course is worth four or five years of experience in the field . |
| 23 | Lydia had said that one night 's fast would be preferable to the plight in which they did indeed now find themselves , but Betty regarded the idea of missing a meal as unnatural and Lydia was overruled . |
| 24 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 25 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 26 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 27 | Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company . |
| 28 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 29 | For this reason , many in the seventeenth century would have said that such knowledge , together with knowledge of undoubted moral principles , such as that promises should be kept , is innate . |
| 30 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |