Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Garscadden says that banding protects the rich and the hon. Member for Dagenham says that the Government are clobbering the rich , and still we do not know . |
| 2 | Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty . |
| 3 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico said that NAFTA would generate more jobs and better wages for Mexican workers , but warned that it was not a " magical formula " and that the benefits would not come immediately . |
| 4 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 5 | One of many speakers on the subject of drugs , President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia said that drug trafficking fuelled terrorism and was one of the greatest threats to democracy in Latin America , adding that " every weapon in the war against narcotics pales into insignificance compared to the need to reduce demand " . |
| 6 | A joint statement issued in Baghdad by Arafat and President Saddam Hussein of Iraq said that Palestinians and Iraqis were united in a joint struggle against the Israeli occupation and the US intervention in the Gulf . |
| 7 | President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria said that Africa had failed to meet its challenges : " Ever since the majority of our countries became independent in the 1960s we have conducted our lives as if the world owes us a living . " |
| 8 | The Archbishop of York said that Charles 's position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England would not be affected by the breakdown of his marriage — not even if he was divorced . |
| 9 | The Corporation of London said that Friday 's blast , which killed three people and injured 91 , had badly affected 100 buildings , leaving 10 with major structural damage . |
| 10 | William of Malmesbury says that Cnut honoured the brotherly corpse with pious lamentations , and that he was accustomed to calling Edmund his brother . |
| 11 | Dr David Slater of HMIP said that HMIP was very keen to encourage self assessment , especially using continuous monitoring techniques , although the emphasis would always remain on spot checking . |
| 12 | The printed text of Taskopruzade says that Molla Arab , having studied under Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey ) at the Sultan medrese in Bursa , became his at the Darulhadis medrese in Edirne . |
| 13 | The University of Utah said that Barney Clark was ‘ fine , in fair condition ’ when New Scientist went to press . |
| 14 | The Aquitanian chronicler Adémar of Chabannes says that Cnut sent Duke William the Great of Aquitaine yearly embassies with costly gifts , and received even more costly ones in return . |
| 15 | A decision by the governments of France and West Germany to return their ambassadors to Iran in early June was welcomed by the Iranian press , with Kayhan saying that Iran would " give a positive response to this positive political move " . |
| 16 | The Director of Personnel responsible for the personal affairs of overseas executives rang Mark from Detroit to say that compensation terms had now been worked out , and that he would be visiting England the following week to discuss the subject with him . |
| 17 | People we spoke to in Ross said that people involved in racial abuse were in the minority . |
| 18 | At Tashkent 's showcase maternity clinic , a Russian from Omsk said that doctors inserted contraceptive devices into local peasant women , often without their consent , as part of a state campaign to lower the birth rate . |
| 19 | A report in the European in August said that Iceland would seek , still within the framework of the IWC , to resume the hunting of fin and minke whales despite the ban . |
| 20 | Company publicity in Europe says that children must be kept away from Galecron . |
| 21 | I 've had a message from Moorlake to say that Miss Lockwood 's ill " |
| 22 | I would talk about the call to the WTN office in Beirut saying that John was OK , and tell them that Sontag 's sighting of Brian showed that silence from the kidnappers did n't necessarily mean that a hostage was dead . |
| 23 | That last minute instruction from London said that planners could only form a view . |
| 24 | However , on Dec. 17 a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Baghdad said that Iraq had refused exit visas to Soviet workers whose contracts had not yet expired . |
| 25 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 26 | The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club . |
| 27 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield said that £1.7 billion has gone into the private sector in the current year . |
| 28 | Scientists at IBM say that governments , agronomists , land planners and mineral prospecting companies are all prospective users of data from satellites . |
| 29 | A communiqué cited by ARER said that ministers had agreed to make Cairo the temporary headquarters of the organization . |