Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his view , it is a complete fallacy to say that downsizing is cheaper — people should choose the right machine to do the job , he says , obviously enough . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that the long recession is ending early in Britain , while the Confederation of British Industry says that companies have begun spending more on innovation even when funds have been squeezed . |
| 3 | Only last week my right hon. Friend said that people had sought asylum from Canada . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend said that Labour would have signed in full . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend says that cash is available which could be used at least to make some payment to doctors who had their payments limited by the list size criterion . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman said that Labour would need to implement an FGD programme , and asked who would pay for it . |
| 7 | Commercial manager said that finding and training the right people was not a problem . |
| 8 | In his verdict the judge who presided over the four-month hearing said that Gecas ( formerly Antanas Gecevicius ) , 76 , a retired mining engineer living in Edinburgh , had " participated in … the killing of innocent Soviet citizens , including Jews , in Byelorussia during the last three months of 1941 " . |
| 9 | In a House of Commons debate at the end of the month the Foreign Office said that UK had " never given , and will never give , support of any kind to the Khmers Rouges " . |
| 10 | Telephone calls to the office get precisely the same response as Sir Geoffrey got — a polite girl saying that Mr. Stavanger is away . |
| 11 | remarked that one would not in ordinary parlance say that Desdemona died by accident , because ‘ the horror of the crime dominates the imagination and compels the expression of the situation in terms related to the crime and the criminal alone . ’ |
| 12 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 13 | This is what central government say that councils should be spending on its services given its populations ' age and social conditions . |
| 14 | It is no real answer to say that authors could withdraw the article and resubmit elsewhere , as the chosen journal may be the most appropriate one . |
| 15 | ‘ Dana , oh , Dana , what have you got me into ? ’ she murmured to her reflection , but there was no answering twinge to say that Dana was aware of Claudia 's distress . |
| 16 | If ‘ transcendent ’ meant ‘ spatially removed ’ from us , and ‘ immanent ’ meant ‘ spatially present ’ among us , then it would be an obvious contradiction to say that God was both transcendent and immanent . |
| 17 | For the writer of Chronicles , it is now impossible for this later Jewish community to say that God sent this punishment — it must have been the devil . |
| 18 | The Australian group said that Pearl 's policyholders will benefit from the deal through its capacity to bring new products and marketing skills and expertise in administration , computing and product development . |
| 19 | An announcement the same day on the national radio said that Traoré 's government had been dissolved and a 17-member National Reconciliation Council ( CNR ) formed under the chairmanship of Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Toure , commander of the parachute regiment . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the International Secretariat said that Vic Williams ' case ‘ fitted precisely ’ the definition used by Amnesty to determine prisoners of conscience throughout the world . |
| 21 | Another extraordinary tale says that Ra , convinced mankind was plotting to overthrow him , sent Hathor to kill them all . |
| 22 | According to Radio France International Cheiffou said that progress had been hindered by various obstacles including intrigues by political parties and the unjustified expectations of the army . |
| 23 | Baker-Bessmertnykh meeting in Washington ends with joint US-Soviet statement saying that bombing will end if Iraq promises unconditional withdrawal . |
| 24 | Grand Met said that tenants could negotiate a discount of £30 or £40 a barrel . |
| 25 | On Tuesday , the Prime Minister said that Japan was in recession . |
| 26 | Shadow Scottish Secretary George Robertson has written to the Prime Minister saying that Scots would be outraged if Northern Ireland got elected an Assembly and Scotland did n't . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the Turkish government said that Turkey 's relations with Moscow would not be affected . |
| 29 | A senior Chinese official said that Beijing was still worried by British attempts to ‘ internationalise ’ the Hong Kong question . |
| 30 | So when one fine morning he comes into his inner office and his principal private secretary says that Phil Schaffer has phoned , he stops in his tracks , grinning . |