Example sentences of "[noun pl] said [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council inspectors said that the building was a fire hazard . |
| 2 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 3 | In sharp contrast , three quarters of all newspaper readers said that the papers they had read on the day of the interview were biased in their coverage of the Conservative and Labour parties , though less than half said their papers gave biased coverage of the Alliance . |
| 4 | The Indians said that the loggers were using the area indiscriminately , driving off wildlife and polluting water courses . |
| 5 | Damanaki said that the Alliance would henceforward be an " autonomous political party " with its own strategies . |
| 6 | In yesterday 's decision , the appeal judges said that the case was too important to be heard anywhere but in the country 's supreme court . |
| 7 | Sir John Banham , for instance , welcomed my right hon. Friend 's prudent Budget and the priority that he gives to reducing inflation , while the Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent and correct in every way . |
| 8 | On April 29 , the co-ordinator of the UN programme for returning Kurdish refugees said that the $100,000,000 set aside for the operation was totally inadequate . |
| 9 | Nearly one in three credit buyers said that the type of credit they used had been a standing arrangement , and so something they used virtually automatically . |
| 10 | We had some anecdotal evidence from the Home Secretary that one or two prison governors whom he happened to run into in recent weeks said that the Bill might not be a bad thing . |
| 11 | Reviewers said that the paper lacked data . |
| 12 | Observers said that the members were expected to be named in late January . |
| 13 | Observers said that the demonstration had been planned to coincide with the visit to Dili of a Portuguese parliamentary delegation ( subsequently cancelled by Indonesia — see p. 38535 ) , and of the UN special rapporteur on torture , Peter Kooymans , to raise international awareness of the East Timor independence movement . |
| 14 | Indian officials said that the lack of greater progress had stemmed from the technical complexity of the problem . |
| 15 | Officials said that the Stornoway A&E department no longer required the exemption , a decision the committee said ‘ they were glad to note ’ . |
| 16 | Concerned about the possibility of food riots which would disrupt the peace process , the USA sent 450,000 ready-made meals from its Defence Department stocks in Europe and the Gulf ; officials said that the USA planned to provide one-third of the nutritional needs of the troops for a year . |
| 17 | EC officials said that the areas , which are regarded as among those most in need of aid , had been omitted because they fell outside the administrative boundary of the Highland and Island region . |
| 18 | Indian government officials said that the dismissal was prompted by increased activity of Sri Lankan Tamil militants in the state , leading to the " breakdown of law and order " . |
| 19 | However , MMD officials said that the possibility of UNIP rigging of the polls had not been ruled out . |
| 20 | Officials said that the decision was in part motivated by concern that punishing Israel would undermine Israel 's position at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference , and aggravate further US-Israeli relations . |
| 21 | Officials said that the contamination probably began in the 1950s . |
| 22 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 23 | On Aug. 24 aid officials said that the UN had once more suspended flights to Juba after shells landed near a plane unloading food at Juba 's airport . |
| 24 | World Bank officials said that the Bank expected to be making loan commitments of US$4,500 million to $5,000 million a year by the middle of 1994 to former Soviet republics . |
| 25 | Government officials said that the events had been planned jointly by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , an organization of military officers , and supporters of former President Marcos . |
| 26 | Officials said that the introduction of what they called the " settlement note " ( raschetny bilet ) had been forced by a severe shortage of rouble notes from Russia . |
| 27 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 28 | EC officials said that the move endangered attempts to reach an overall GATT agreement . |
| 29 | Officials said that the move was temporary and that the companies would be paid for supplying petroleum products . |
| 30 | Government officials said that the design had been improved to prevent the kind of accident that occurred at Chernobyl in 1986 . |