Example sentences of "say [pron] was [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Lord Justice Balcombe said it was unlikely that a pending court application by the mother , who is divorced from the children 's father , for access to her children would succeed .
2 Lord Hailsham , a former Lord Chancellor , said it was paradoxical that a Government dedicated to privatisation should produce a bill whose object was to nationalise the judiciary and the legal profession .
3 Novell said it was likely that a version of UnixWare for the PC-9800 line from NEC Corp , which dominates the Japanese market , would be developed , although no date was committed .
4 But he said he was confident that a new offer by City director Christopher Needler to underwrite an increased overdraft will be accepted by the bank .
5 Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged .
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