Example sentences of "[noun prp] say [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |
| 2 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 3 | Proust says that rather like those thin , flat pieces of coloured paper called Japanese flowers , which expand and become indeed three-dimensional when placed in water , similarly the taste of the madeleine brings back , not an abstract intellectual idea of the past , but the authentic sensation of his experiences as a small boy in the houses and the streets and the gardens of Combray . |
| 4 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 5 | On Feb. 19 a spokesman for the London-based Association for Free Kuwait said that more than 7,000 civilians had been killed and 17,000 detained since Aug. 2 . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed said that as far as he was concerned , regional government would not take away the powers of local government . |
| 7 | Chairman of ITV Sport Greg Dyke said that now the new league may not become the major force it could have been . |
| 8 | Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian , the language which , like French in Imperial Russia , had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah . |
| 9 | Regional director Derek Alcorn said that about 35pc of inquiries to CAB offices were about benefits . |
| 10 | NEC said that initially in markets outside Japan it would look to sales through OEM channels — it currently has OEM relationships with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , and Stratus Computers Inc , whose fault-tolerant systems it buys for sale in Japan . |
| 11 | NEC said that initially in markets outside Japan it would look to sales through OEM channels — it currently has OEM relationships with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , and Stratus Computers Inc , whose fault-tolerant systems it buys for sale in Japan . |
| 12 | New-age traveller Jim says that under European law , the new-age travellers are recognised as needing sites and British law should recognise them too . |
| 13 | Walley commented , ‘ As long as the service agreements are being met , I do n't think it 's important to talk about the topology ’ — although SuperJANET 's Dr Geoff Manning says that so far only three switches are in operation . |
| 14 | Reddy says that about 40 per cent of that reduction came from improving efficiency . |
| 15 | However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ . |
| 16 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 17 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 18 | Mr Ahtisaari said that only 315 people were then found to be unaccounted for , because the mission 's list contained duplications , vague identifications , names of people who have been released and repatriated , names of people never detained and some who have been reported dead . |
| 19 | A spokesman for Mr Millan said that today 's commission recommendations still have to be examined by the European Parliament before a final decision , possibly as late as June , by national government ministers in the Council of Ministers . |
| 20 | Mrs Jarvie said that apart from the sleeper , freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth used the line at that time of night , after midnight . |
| 21 | Tony Dalessio of IFAC said that both IFAC and IAPC were ‘ very pleased and enthused ’ . |
| 22 | Mr Carbert said that previously Gilfoyle had told him he had been a paramedic in the Falklands and had treated casualties on the battlefield . |
| 23 | Quoting the 1989 Constitution , Aikhomu said that only the future president had the authority to proclaim the holding of the first session of the legislature . |
| 24 | Joan is proud of both talent and talent-spotter : ‘ Graeme said that just by watching Steve work you could see he had something , that he instinctively knew how to handle the food . ’ |
| 25 | Speaking of the event almost fifty years later , Wordsworth said that both he and his sister retained ‘ the liveliest possible image ’ of Coleridge in that moment , and Coleridge himself regarded the warmth with which he was received at Racedown as a standard against which all other greetings could be measured and found to fall short . |
| 26 | Mr Jackson says that maybe someone in the house can look after him . |
| 27 | MAFF says that only 1 per cent of the 2,500 samples analysed in 1990 and 1991 exceeded Maximum Residue Levels , although the Pesticides Trust commented that this was a worryingly high level for staple foods . |
| 28 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 29 | Lord Diplock said that even if the predominant motives were ‘ to bring down the fabric of the present economic system by raising wages to unrealistic levels ’ , that would not make the dispute any less one connected with the terms and conditions of employment and therefore a trade dispute . |
| 30 | However , Pentos said that both Dillons and Rymans ( including Wilding ) had performed satisfactorily , achieving like-for-like sales increases of 4% ( to £128m ) and 1% respectively . |