Example sentences of "[adj] said that the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 2 | This said that the Treaty should be discussed further , since it did not reflect the people 's wish , as expressed in the March referendum [ see pp. 38078-80 ] , to preserve the Soviet Union as a federation . |
| 3 | Local farmers preferred black or dark brindled animals in both breeds and some said that the Galloway had originally been a horned black animal with touches of white , or perhaps brindle with a white dorsal stripe and occasionally belted . |
| 4 | Another said that the location of industry and Government Training Centres had to be looked at in terms of equal opportunity and access . |
| 5 | Another said that the clash " must be imagery . |
| 6 | However , Le Monde of July 2 said that the programme " read more as a catalogue of good intentions than an exact timetable for the pursuit of economic reforms " , implying that its approval was timed to coincide with the G-7 meeting [ see p. 38990 ] . |
| 7 | An International Labour Organization ( ILO ) report of March 30 said that the slump in production would mean that more than 15,000,000 jobs would be lost in the former Soviet Union in 1992 — 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 8 | An Iraqi government statement issued on March 30 said that the devices were " merely electrical capacitors , used for many industrial , scientific and technical purposes " . |
| 9 | Mandela on Oct. 12 said that the ANC was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalization if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the country . |
| 10 | A report in the Washington Post of April 10 said that the plan presented by Solomon outlined four distinct phases : ( i ) at the time of the signing of an international agreement on Cambodia the USA and Vietnam would enter into normalization discussions ; the USA would also officially approve visits by US business and veterans ' groups to Vietnam ; ( ii ) with the establishment of a US transitional presence in Cambodia , the US would partially lift its trade embargo against Vietnam and Cambodia ; the second phase would also require increased accounting for US MIAs ; ( iii ) the third phase would begin after the UN process in Cambodia had lasted at least six months and would include the establishment of US and Vietnamese diplomatic offices in Hanoi and Washington respectively , a full lifting of the US trade embargo against Vietnam and an easing of US opposition to international bank lending to Vietnam ; the third phase would also involve further substantial progress in accounting for US MIAs ; ( iv ) the final phase would follow UN-supervised elections in Cambodia and would include full normalization of US diplomatic and economic relations with Vietnam and Cambodia as well as support for international bank lending . |
| 11 | An article in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 10 said that the visit was partly to balance an early December visit to Taiwan by US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills [ see this page ] . |
| 12 | Reports on Aug. 7 said that the government had airlifted hundreds of Palestinians , expected to total 3,000 by mid-August , to Jordan [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] ] . |
| 13 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting on Dec. 7 said that the EEA should go ahead without Switzerland , while expressing regret over the outcome of the Swiss referendum . |
| 14 | A separate statement issued by Germany on July 7 said that the summit had deplored the continued fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh ; condemned non-compliance by Iraq with UN Gulf war resolutions ; and urged the resumption of negotiations in South Africa . |
| 15 | However , Professor John Gunn , who chaired the working party which recommended the construction of Nina in 1960 said that the delay was inevitable because of the financial constraints at the time . |
| 16 | Channel 4 said that the word was used to describe that part of the body rather than gratuitously to offend … |
| 17 | The Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 17 said that the war " imposed " on the " fraternal Iraqi people " had been " forcefully rejected " , and the largest of all the protest demonstrations took place in Algiers , where a march organized by the fundamentalist Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) on Feb. 1 reportedly involved 400,000 people . |
| 18 | A government press note issued on Jan. 11 said that the riots had been sparked off by inmates demanding " the release of all prisoners following the liberation of the country from autocratic rule " . |
| 19 | I remind her that the Labour Government 's White Paper of 1977 said that the upsurge in the subsidy in the early years of that decade had been accompanied by sharp cuts in investment . |
| 20 | Lord Diplock in Treacy v DPP [ 1971 ] AC 537 said that the Act was " expressed in simple language as used and understood by ordinary literate men and women " . |
| 21 | Commenting on the incident , the New York Times of May 3 said that the US administration had employed " diplomatic symbolism " to show its irritation at Israel 's intransigence in the current peace negotiations . |
| 22 | Subsequent reports on Oct. 1 said that the head of the UN-IAEA commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] , Rolf Ekeus , had " firmly instructed " the team to brief only the commission or the IAEA , after it emerged that Kay had passed information directly to the US administration while held in Baghdad . |
| 23 | The EC statement of May 8 said that the call " violated the most elementary principles and obligations governing relations between sovereign states " . |
| 24 | Press reports in the week of March 23 said that the USA was seeking exemptions from free trade rules for four key service sectors : maritime transport , financial services , air transport and basic telecommunications . |
| 25 | The Guardian of May 23 said that the fighting , previously " confined to sporadic small arms skirmishes " , was intensifying with the use of heavy weaponry and organized military formations . |
| 26 | A French radio report of Dec. 15 said that the Education Minister , Muhammad Abdullah al-Jayfi , had resigned in protest at the government 's handling of the economy . |
| 27 | Reports on Aug. 15 said that the Prosecutor General , Abolfazi Moussavi Tabrizi , had threatened to impose the death sentence on anyone violating the dress code . |
| 28 | They were too modest , because it was a Labour Government who invented capping — back in the 1970s , when Labour said that the party was over . |
| 29 | The DPP statement on June 14 said that the jury in the 1976 trial might not have realised from the scientific evidence provided that the seven could have been innocently contaminated with nitroglycerine , but that " in the light of current scientific knowledge this was a real possibility , however remote " . |
| 30 | Two said that the benefit would be greater personal motivation and one hoped to inform and involve their Kirk Session . |