Example sentences of "[noun prp] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intelligence sources in West Germany say that efforts to stop the current wave of IRA attacks have not been hampered by rivalries and that different organisations have been co-operating well together . |
| 2 | The Masai say that Engai Narok ( the black god ) , who lives in the dark storm clouds , has fed the earth with life-giving rain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Richard says that trainer Martin Pipe 's horses are coming into form and its going to be a tough race |
| 5 | Beyond this , Dawes says that MicroMuse will be writing and selling more of its own applications in future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Boss Esmond Bulmer says that cider sales ‘ continue to show great resistance to the slump ’ and this has bumped half-year pre-tax profits to £10.7m , a jump of 18% on the corresponding period . |
| 14 | Scott says that financiers formed a ‘ tightly integrated group with numerous overlapping business activities ’ . |
| 15 | In the Bible God has two names , er Yarway Anno Domini and er Freud says that Domini could be a corruption of |
| 16 | Senior partner Bill Small said that PW rejected all claims against it ‘ for any negligence or wrong-doing arising from the audit of Linter ’ . |
| 17 | I think that once was enough , Mr. Banham said that Sheffield was a shining example . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | Mr. Blacker said that council officers who had met the committee were aware of problems in the area . |
| 20 | On the eve of an ANC national executive committee meeting to discuss the government 's failure to satisfy its ultimatum , Mandela said that violence could spread to white residential areas once people realized that " the government is working with a black organization that is killing our people " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In his address to the Supreme Soviet session , Karimov said that calm was maintained in the republic thanks to opposition forces ' recognition " that civil consent is the main guarantee of state independence " . |
| 25 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |
| 26 | In a separate appeal issued on the same day to the Lithuanian people Gorbachev said that developments in their republic were causing " extreme concern and bewilderment " throughout the Soviet Union , and that people were calling on the Soviet government to use " economic , political and administrative measures " to defend the USSR Constitution and the country 's integrity . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | Picasso said that taste was the enemy of creativity and , eventually , those disabled artists who pursue that path of affecting taste will find their work stagnating , since they are facilitating an outsider 's vision of themselves . |
| 29 | On May 18 Justice , Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Munangagwa said that farmers whose land was compulsorily purchased would no longer be paid compensation in foreign currency remittable abroad , as provided for by the Lancaster House agreement . |
| 30 | He drew the Star of David , the Jewish symbol , a number of times and Paul Guillaume said that Modigliani liked his work to be considered Jewish . |