Example sentences of "[noun pl] say [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference watchers say his barnstorming oratory 's been sorely missed . |
| 2 | The booksellers say its basic economics . |
| 3 | A shopkeeper whose premises have been smashed open by ramraiders twice in three weeks says his local council have stopped him installing protective security shutters . |
| 4 | Despite this growing equality of method of contraception , in the 1970s about 20 per cent of the wives of non-manual workers , 27 per cent of the wives of skilled manual workers , and 47 per cent of the wives of unskilled manual workers said their last pregnancy was unintended ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 5 | German firms say their only hope of staying competitive is to cut production , and are seeking co-operation among themselves to do this in the the most effective way . |
| 6 | The newly unified front has little influence inside Iraq , but members say its mere existence will refresh the embers of anti-Saddam feeling at home . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs says its soon-to-be parent Novell Inc had nothing to do with those staff cuts ten days ago at USL Europe ( UX No 422 ) . |
| 8 | Doctors said his main injuries were psychological and the ‘ shattering experience ’ has left him with post traumatic stress syndrome . |
| 9 | The police say their only lead is a vague description of a man seen running from the alley after the shooting . |
| 10 | Some children said our hoped-for bus had gone through so Mohammed and Ali wandered off and somehow hired or hijacked a pick up truck . |
| 11 | Alison Hillhouse , director of ASH Scotland , said : ‘ Time and time again you hear these women say their first priority is to feed their family and pay their bills . |
| 12 | Steve Jobs says his NeXT Computer Inc is taking a major risk in developing NeXTStep 3.0 for 80486-based personal computers , but reckons that it is the only serious competition for Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 13 | * BP Chemicals said its total emissions from major sites fell by 4,000 tonnes to 154,000 tonnes in 1992 when it published its second annual emissions report . |