Example sentences of "[noun prp] said the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But chief executive Colin Spencer said the Government inspector would expect them to put forward a preferred route as a matter of policy . |
| 2 | Cunningham said the work would be done as soon as possible and that there would talks with Novell in the next month or two . |
| 3 | Mrs Geoghegan-Quinn said the shooting incident on Lake Derravarragh was being investigated . |
| 4 | Director Nick Hardwick said the charity had been ‘ much heartened ’ by Diana 's support in the past . |
| 5 | Mrs Mitterrand said the hospital was on Iraqi soil , in an area controlled by the rebel Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan ( PDKI ) and inside the air exclusion zone set up by Western allies to protect Iraqi Kurds . |
| 6 | Mr Johnstone said the group could no longer guarantee a bed for life regardless of whether residents were privately funded or eligible for income support . |
| 7 | Mr Garsia said the bitch , called Trixie , was taken to the parlour by her owners , Mr Keith Roberts and his wife , Debbie , on April 17 last year . |
| 8 | The two companies already have a strategic partnership but Renault said the merger would produce additional savings of more than 30 billion francs ( £3.4 billion ) by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | These had risen by 70,000 in the month from mid-August , and Mr Murdoch said the group was likely to reach the target of one million homes by 1 February 1990 . |
| 10 | Lord Justice Balcombe said the way in which section 16(2) of the Adoption Act 1976 was structured was that an adoption order ‘ shall not be made unless ’ the parent is withholding consent unreasonably . |
| 11 | Mr Stansfield said the increase in costs had been partly due to inflation and other features introduced into the scheme . |
| 12 | While chairman David Gare said the group performed well throughout the year , he had expected this year 's figures to be better than last . |
| 13 | Mr Baillie said the part of the building which had been converted to offices was no longer suitable for care of the elderly and could not have been adapted economically . |
| 14 | But Mr Crandall said the company will not seek concessions because that would hurt employee morale , which he said must be maintained in a service business . |
| 15 | Lord Hailsham said the test was not culpability , callousness , self-indulgent indifference or failure of parental duty , but was the test of reasonableness in all the circumstances . |
| 16 | Mrs Laughton said the Reporter had too much input into the Hearings themselves , and the Panel ceased to be independent . |
| 17 | Calling the deportation a sovereign act , Mr Capobianco said the move was ‘ a demonstration before the international community ’ of Bolivia 's commitment to the war against drugs . |
| 18 | Mr Hill said the murder still appeared to be motiveless . |
| 19 | Mr McVeigh said the investment programme would enable the company to benefit from economic recovery in its most important markets . |
| 20 | Rugby club chairman John Redmayne said the club was looking at alternative sites . |
| 21 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 22 | President Rodrigo Borja of Ecuador said the decision to extradite Mr Porras was a sign of support for Colombia 's crackdown . |
| 23 | ‘ But when Gazza said the word beginning with F while he was representing England on TV before the Norway international , nothing was done . |
| 24 | Mr Cardoso said the battling started after three black American seamen attacked a white US sailor at the Passport Bar in the gaudy , neon-lit Cais do Sodre area . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough-based personnel manager Dale Haddon said the mix-up did n't mean the end of Bridget 's chances of landing a Post Office job . |
| 26 | Tyne Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions ( CSEU ) chairman Tommy Brennan said the union conveners meeting in Carlisle would consider a recommendation from national CSEU chairman Jim McFall that Swan Hunter workers should resist any bid to have the frigates completed elsewhere . |
| 27 | But ITV Association chairman Greg Dyke said the proposal would lead to the network losing hit shows and mean stars like The Bill 's Christopher Ellison would only be seen on satellite TV . |
| 28 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 29 | Mr Ely said the operation changed their lives : ‘ It was like the heavens opening up . ’ |
| 30 | Spokeswoman Captain Marcella Adams said the base , which planned to hold the event on May 29 and 30 , would normally have heard by now . |