Example sentences of "say that [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sources say that by the seventeenth century big , stately , black longhorns were being reared in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , Lancashire and Staffordshire and that by the eighteenth century there was a large , rangy , big-hoofed plough-ox type which could also give acceptable though ordinary meat and the cows could give reasonable milk well suited for cheese-making . |
| 2 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 3 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 4 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 5 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 6 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 7 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 8 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 9 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 10 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |
| 11 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 12 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 13 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 14 | Masha nodded , saying that for the first time since Geneva she could feel the attraction of Communism . |
| 15 | Moreover , in speaking , as one would tend to in a high Christology , of humanity as being summed up in Christ , or in saying that through the second person of the trinity humanity is taken into the Godhead , differences between humans may also be minimized . |
| 16 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 17 | He said that during the first interview Hepburn had denied any involvement , but when seen again 40 minutes later ‘ frankly said that he was responsible for the assaults on both girls ’ . |
| 18 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 19 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said that for the second year running he had been swamped with complaints from local people who feel they are living in ‘ eyesores ’ . |
| 20 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 21 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 22 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 23 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 24 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |
| 25 | The Provence seems to have been Miller 's favourite type of rose ; he frequently stressed its outstanding fragrance , an important consideration in the flower garden , and said that by the mid-eighteenth century it had become the most widely propagated of any kind . |
| 26 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 27 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 28 | Retail price rises averaged 17.8 per cent for the year , but foreign economists said that in the fourth quarter inflation scarcely rose above zero . |
| 29 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 30 | He was serious , it 's his get out from telling you to say that in the first place |