Example sentences of "[noun] say [that] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the experts say that Britain 's rivers are much poorer without them . |
| 2 | South African experts say that Martin is a good provincial player — but nowhere near international selection . |
| 3 | The Masai say that Engai Narok ( the black god ) , who lives in the dark storm clouds , has fed the earth with life-giving rain . |
| 4 | Supporters of the NBA say that Dillons ' experiment proves nothing , their key objection being that , since there was no corresponding monitoring of a similarly promoted sample of full price titles , the finding that discounting grows the market is dubious . |
| 5 | Bankers close to the deal say that Morgan Stanley was forced reluctantly to accept a lower commission structure because Italy was being offered this by other banks competing for the business . |
| 6 | Director Tony Downes says that IBM has published details in the past , for example for Physical Unit 2.1 , and while these prove a useful guide , he says , there is a good deal of interpretation needed to turn them into usable products . |
| 7 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 8 | Research says that Mike Todd was the man who awakened you as an actress and as a woman . |
| 9 | The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) . |
| 10 | Irenaeus says that Mark wrote after the deaths of Peter and Paul , while Clement of Alexandria stated that the book was written while Peter was still preaching in Rome . |
| 11 | Beyond this , Dawes says that MicroMuse will be writing and selling more of its own applications in future . |
| 12 | Later in 1019 , the Chronicle says that Cnut sailed for Denmark and stayed there all winter . |
| 13 | Baltaci , noting the conflict between the fact that the medrese had apparently already been founded by 870 and the fact that Mecdi says that Molla Husrev did not go off to Bursa to found the medrese until 877 , suggests that the was written in anticipation of the actual building of the medrese . |
| 14 | Engels says that Cognos is now in the early stages of negotiation with ICL and Bull and the company is engineering a Unix System V.4-compliant product that will make it economically more reasonable to appear on a wider variety of Unix environments . |
| 15 | Bede says that Oswiu was forced to pay this tribute as the price of peace on condition that Penda would cease to devastate his kingdom and withdraw ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 16 | Second , Bede says that Oswiu established his rule over the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for three years after Penda 's death ( HE III , 24 — on Bede 's chronology 655–8 but perhaps to be emended to 656–9 . |
| 17 | In his History of the Abbots Bede says that Ecgberht , king of Kent , sent a certain Wigheard to Rome where he wished him to be consecrated archbishop , and only subsequently in the Ecclesiastical History does Bede report that Oswiu and Ecgberht consulted together on what action to take about a successor to Deusdedit and that they agreed on the choice of one of Deusdedit 's clergy , Wigheard , whom they sent to Rome to be consecrated ( HE III , 29 ) . |
| 18 | It is unfortunate that knowledge of this important phase in Northumbrian dynastic history is so slight but Bede says that Osric nominated Ceolwulf as his successor ( HE V , 23 ) , and Bede appears to have welcomed his accession , sending him a draft version of the Ecclesiastical History for his comments and criticism and dedicating the finished work to him ( HE Preface ) . |
| 19 | The Welsh annals ( s.a. 629 ) refer to the besieging of Cadwallon on the island of Ynys Lannog ( Priestholm ) and Bede says that Eadwine brought under Anglian rule the Mevanian Islands , by which Môn ( Anglesey ) and Man are meant ( HE 11 , 5 ) , making it clear that the northern Anglian king must have established an impressive naval and military presence in the Irish Sea . |
| 20 | In the Bible God has two names , er Yarway Anno Domini and er Freud says that Domini could be a corruption of |
| 21 | Then I had a call from my agent saying that Warren had fired me . |
| 22 | Senior partner Bill Small said that PW rejected all claims against it ‘ for any negligence or wrong-doing arising from the audit of Linter ’ . |
| 23 | I think that once was enough , Mr. Banham said that Sheffield was a shining example . |
| 24 | On Aug. 9 , when the aircraft carrier Clémenceau was directed to the Gulf area , President Mitterrand said that France 's long-standing friendly relations with Iraq , and support during its war with Iran , " allows us to say all the more clearly that we accept neither the aggression against Kuwait nor the annexation which followed " . |
| 25 | No good to say that Strathtay was not ready for them . |
| 26 | In the case of Sgt Soles , the Department said that Mrs Marsden 's inquiry had resulted in the discovery that his widow , who had remarried by was now very ill , was entitled to have her widow 's pension reinstated under new legislation and this had now been done . |
| 27 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
| 28 | Having this system in place alerts companies to suspicious orders , and Stephenson said that CIA members had recently reported shady Yugoslavian and Libyan inquiries to the British government agencies . |
| 29 | The indictment said that Hick and Hughes were members of an IRA terrorist unit , consisting of four to six people , ‘ to which Donna Maguire and Gerard Harte as well as Desmond Grew ( later shot by security forces in Northern Ireland ) belonged ’ . |
| 30 | No other details were disclosed , but a meeting in Moscow with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah on Feb. 14 Gorbachev said that Primakov had " met with some flexibility from the regime in Baghdad " . |