Example sentences of "[adj] say that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This said that Soviet historians had recently discovered documents revealing that in April-May 1940 all but 394 inmates of the three camps had been turned over to NKVD administrations in Smolensk , Voroshilovgrad and Kalinin , and had been " never again mentioned in NKVD statistical accounts " . |
| 2 | A joint CRN-CCAOD communiqué broadcast on March 30 said that free elections at municipal , legislative and presidential level would be held before Jan. 1 , 1992 , and that the army would return to barracks on Jan. 20 . |
| 3 | The Guardian of Feb. 12 said that Kuwaiti refugees arriving in al-Ruweishid , Jordan , had confirmed an outbreak of cholera and worsening food shortages . |
| 4 | It would be simplistic to interpret ‘ TransForm ’ as a study of the overlapping and interconnection of painting and sculpture in the twentieth century ; it would be more exact to say that avant-garde movements abandoned the concept of ‘ a painting ’ or ‘ a sculpture ’ as such . |
| 5 | Butler sometimes talks of a passion as directed at one 's ‘ having ’ its object , but it seems more satisfactory to say that particular passions are directed at occurrences , and that the basic one can not be directed ; t the occurrence of pleasure for oneself since this always stems from having something occur one wished to do so . |
| 6 | They thought it unsatisfactory to say that moral qualities are distinguished by sense or feeling rather than by reason . |
| 7 | It is all very well to say that local circumstances will dictate responses but there will be many similar circumstances from place to place , so that there is clear benefit in adopting common approaches if not standard solutions . |
| 8 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 9 | He had been temporary chargé d'affaires at the Netherlands embassy in Baghdad from September to October 1990 , but the Tunisian Foreign Ministry on March 1 said that initial investigations suggested no political motives . |
| 10 | It is fair to say that international organizations are much more sensitive to this accusation than formerly . |
| 11 | I think it is fair to say that hard words were spoken , but I never knew exactly what was said . |
| 12 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 13 | Mrs Porter said it was difficult to say that local authorities should help Victim Support , but added : ‘ It would be nice if we could be considered because of our vital service . ’ |
| 14 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 15 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 16 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would be truer to say that other things that I was doing made it seem less important . |