Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] say [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is entrusted with the task of protecting the lives , liberties and properties of the individual members of the body politic and there is a reading of Locke which I questioned last Tuesday which says that that is all a government can do . |
| 2 | He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now . |
| 3 | Now their successes have been tarnished in a report by school inspectors who say that educational standards have fallen and the marking was far too lenient . |
| 4 | NOW that we have come back — with our half-used tubes of Factor 20 sun-cream , the remnants of a jar of Arnica ( for bruises ) , and the broken paper umbrella that decked my son 's wiener schnitzel for our last supper — I can give the lie to all those Doubting Thomases who said that five small boys on skis was a recipe for disaster , not a holiday . |
| 5 | But given that the authors themselves say that 20 per cent of those over 80 suffer from senile dementia ( p. 297 ) an important group of clients and their carers seem to have been dis-enfranchised . |
| 6 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 7 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 8 | No I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebody |
| 9 | In response to my question he said that this included the establishment of a one-party system . |
| 10 | I wish I 'd brought the environment committee before so I could quote from it but from er recollection it says that that organisation did not have a consistent record of producing a significant number of jobs and that the expenditure on funding them did not provide value for money . |
| 11 | But at trial she said that this admission had been falsely made in order to protect her son . |
| 12 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Nevertheless , Adam 's a qualified lawyer , ’ Freddy said , ‘ yet he put his name to a prospectus which says that all material information has been disclosed — but does not mention a fifteen per cent stock option that I was n't told about . ’ |
| 14 | On Jan. 25 , however , Tanjug quoted statements by four refugees from Shkodër who said that anti-Stalinist demonstrations had taken place there on Jan. 11 and 14 , involving up to 7,000 people ; that there had been many arrests ; and that police reinforcements were patrolling the city and the surrounding area . |
| 15 | oranges , is gon na be issued in the place we say that that er , er at two o'clock if it 's wet we 'll be in the |
| 16 | The executioner himself said that each hangman has his own hall-mark . |
| 17 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 18 | Their claims were supported on the same day by UK Foreign Office sources who said that Iraqi forces were pursuing a policy of " tremendous inhumanity " . |
| 19 | Arguments that there was no human author and , consequently , the lists of numbers drawn by the computer were not protected by copyright were rejected by Whitford J. who said that such a claim was as silly as saying that a pen could be the author of a literary work . |
| 20 | There was a man being interviewed on tele the other night he said that these people are trying to destroy the English language by their |
| 21 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 22 | These decisions angered many sections of the white community , including de Klerk who said that national symbols had nothing to do with apartheid . |
| 23 | In certain situations we said that written-down cost could be used as an alternative . |
| 24 | Once again , it is only the traditional approach which says that this is actually wrong . |
| 25 | If the answer is yes , is that to be taken as part of Rudduck 's message which says that small scale studies are not trivial if they nevertheless provide excitement , confidence and insight ? |
| 26 | So I can sympathise with those protesters outside the gate who say that new scientific knowledge must be applied for the benefit of all and not just those who commission and control it . |
| 27 | In Heath 's personal and confidential letters to chairmen of policy groups he said that interim reports should concentrate on points that might be considered for inclusion in a manifesto for an Autumn election . |
| 28 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |
| 29 | The portfolio matrix could be used to focus on different risk-return combinations and to develop a corporate mixed risk-return portfolio , but there is absolutely nothing inherent in the McKinsey-GE model which says that this is what a portfolio grid is meant to achieve . |
| 30 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |