Example sentences of "[adv] say that [num] " in BNC.

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1 On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse .
2 They have a responsibility for managing the U G B Contract , and you quite rightly said that one of the arguments on that contract , assessments of the over seventy-fives .
3 Now I 'm not saying that two wrongs make a right , and the fact that women have had to put up with this means than men just have to put up with it in their turn .
4 And we can not say that one way of perceiving things is more real than another .
5 We have always said that four boats are the minimum .
6 Det Supt John Ogg , head of Central Scotland CID , issued a statement yesterday saying that two people had been charged with fraud and that a report would be sent to the procurator-fiscal .
7 Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest .
8 ‘ He once said that one of my weaknesses was that I was n't vindictive enough , ’ said the urbane and distinctly ungrudging Foster , hugging a radiator .
9 Pro-hunters also say that 16,000 people will lose their jobs if hunting and field sports were to cease , a claim which is denied by MP Kevin Macnamara .
10 Dudo also says that one of Richard I 's enemies acknowledged that the English were subject to him .
11 The survey also says that ten per cent of the county 's companies think the market will actually contract in the next six months .
12 Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move .
13 Amid a torrent of press accusations of Machiavellian deception , the Italian Interior Ministry later said that 2,267 Albanians had been deported , while 788 , mainly deserting soldiers , were allowed to stay .
14 And also to say that one of the Sundays has expressed interest in doing an extract .
15 Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank .
16 Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank .
17 He also said that two guns used had a history of previous use .
18 It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation .
19 It also said that three more desktop Alpha systems , one priced below $10,000 , will be announced next spring , and that an AXPcluster facility is to follow .
20 ’ Weel , noo that ye ask — na , I can nae say that I huv — no today at oany rate . ’
21 No I can honestly say that Two Weeks On , Two Weeks Off suits me fine just as long as he minds to cut his toe-nails …
22 Families in therapy often say that one of their children is particularly good while another is especially difficult .
23 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
24 It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners .
25 A more sophisticated use of doubling and halving was used by another pupil to find how much 3 lbs of pears would cost : the pupil doubled 2 lbs costing 30p to obtain 4 lbs costing 60p and then said that 45 was halfway between 30 and 60 .
26 And Shelley then said that one big engine with various outlets of varying capacities according to the needs of each organ might be used .
27 Yesterday , she again said that 9 out of 10 of the journeys carried out by ambulance workers were concerned with non-emergency work .
28 If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ?
29 It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention .
30 Burton , which recently said that 2,000 of its full-time jobs were to go and 3,000 part-time staff to be hired instead , will use some of the cash to cut borrowings to about £160 million .
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