Example sentences of "[noun sg] say [that] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gavin Grant of the Unit Trust Association says that £37 million worth of new investment has been put into trusts during October . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp says that sales of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade topped 3m copies in April , the first month after it began shipping the product , bettering the previous record set by MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 upgrades combined ; sales of the upgrade were still supply-constrained , resulting in a backlog . |
| 3 | The council says that people who reject accomodation must wait a year for another offer . |
| 4 | In a report , Rental Purchase : The Case for Change , the housing pressure group says that people buying properties on rental purchase schemes — common in the north of England for cheaper property — should be protected as if they were assured tenants under the Housing Act 1988 , and landlords should be responsible for all repairs . |
| 5 | If their new buildings did not look like churches they had a right to say that people should re-examine what they thought a church ought to look like . |
| 6 | Aiming at 70 Implementor sales for 1993 , Hugh McCartney , the company 's managing director said that 75% of business will still come from people developing applications for the AS/400 : ‘ We expect people to migrate in two to three years . |
| 7 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 8 | Only last week my right hon. Friend said that people had sought asylum from Canada . |
| 9 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 10 | On Nov. 22 the radio station said that people in the Bale administrative area of south-eastern Ethiopia had declared their readiness to join pro-government forces in fighting " anti-peace forces " there . |
| 11 | Presenting the final 1992 results ( figures , page seven ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA said that sales in lire terms rose 5.5% in the first three months of 1993 from a year earlier , but they did n't give any absolute revenue figures ; in terms of volume , Olivetti said personal computer sales in Europe jumped 72% in the first quarter from a year earlier , printer sales rose 42% ; the firm will break even at the operating level this year but will not return to profit until 1994 , chairman Carlo De Benedetti said . |
| 12 | The shop 's manageress says that staff saw it smouldering , so they evacuated the store as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Learning theory says that people behave in the way they do because of their past learning experiences , and that learning can be organised and planned to produce and eliminate particular behaviours . |
| 14 | People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said that people in the camp were in a ‘ very emotional ’ state . |
| 16 | The London Weather Centre said that people travelling for the holiday weekend will face more rain tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 17 | Guidelines from the Department of Health say that 85% of the social security element of the funding transfer should be spent on residential care for elderly people with a further 5% on their day care . |
| 18 | A recent United Nations report says that 90% of the adult population are literate . |
| 19 | Peter Jones who 's the deputy director of the traffic studies department at Oxford University and the author of the report says that people do n't think the rules governing parking are strict enough . |
| 20 | Brazil is also a country of frontiersmen , pioneers — bandeirantes , they are called — and it would be an understatement to say that ethics and morals play a relatively small part in the art of being Brazilian . |
| 21 | The report said that £20.2m was spent unlawfully on highways maintenance since 1988 as it was carried out by Lambeth Direct Labour Organisation ( DLO ) without being put out to competitive tender . |
| 22 | We want the Minister to say that sales will not proceed until there is agreement not consultation — among the parties concerned to ensure the success of buy-outs . |
| 23 | Nearly a million people ( a tenth of Greece 's population ) demonstrated in Salonika ; an opinion poll said that 72% were against any compromise on the name , and 20% were ready to fight about it ; and up to a quarter of New Democracy 's members of parliament threatened rebellion . |
| 24 | Accepted marketing wisdom says that 20% of customers represent 80% of one 's business . |