Example sentences of "[noun prp] said that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the course of a statement to a congressional committee on Jan. 23 Greenspan said that such comments were not putting pressure on the Federal Reserve , but were merely statements that lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones .
2 Afterwards Molyneaux and Paisley said that further talks would be held in March , and that Mr Brooke would then respond to Unionist demands that the government should consider an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agreement .
3 On May 13 the acting Attorney General Hamad al-Othman said that 45 collaboration cases were ready to go to trial .
4 At the opening ceremony , director Howard Newby said that global warming was one of the most important threats facing humanity and that research was needed into how global warming could be slowed and its effects managed .
5 In its recommendations , the IEHO said that any pool should be fully supervised by trained staff unless it fills three criteria ; the pool is used infrequently ; a relevant member of staff is always aware when the pool is in use ; and that use be restricted to adults of known swimming ability .
6 Ken said that many performers ought to pay managements for the privilege of working on the stage .
7 Speaking at a conference in Cambridge , Lord Buxton said that three years of dry weather were not primarily responsible for the lowest groundwater levels since the 1940s .
8 Durkheim said that simple societies were held together by ‘ mechanical solidarity through likeness ’ : people were united by the similarity in the labour and the general social roles they performed , which also gave rise to a homogeneous conscience collective .
9 Commenting on his reasons for selling off the chain he founded in 1978 , Mr Weatherburn said that last year had been ‘ very difficult ’ , not just because of the stampede into remaindering by other companies ( see also Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) .
10 Mr Lang said that Scottish Office funding for the laboratory complex was firm evidence of the Government 's support for the future importance of science and technology .
11 A spokesman for PPL said that many hoteliers and restaurateurs believe that they only need a licence from the PRS to be fully covered .
12 Mr Meacher said that such details would have to be worked out between ministers and their officials , but he is likely to be pressed to be more specific .
13 Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon .
14 IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% .
15 IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% .
16 On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages .
17 But Mr Reynolds said that renewed efforts were needed to find a political settlement in Northern Ireland .
18 On April 9 the DPK said that Kurdish guerrillas had checked the advance of government troops north of Sulaimaniya .
19 The ANC said that substantial progress in fulfilling these demands would have to be made before negotiations could recommence .
20 Mr Salmond said that recent comments by Labour 's shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , that the constitutional issue was not uppermost in people 's minds could not be more wrong .
21 Earlier figures given out by the US Army in January said that 23 US soldiers had been killed ( later amended to 26 ) and 323 wounded .
22 Gen Schwanitz said that national security offices in Cottbus , Dresden , Suhl , and Rostock had to be closed after his staff were attacked by angry crowds .
23 Lord Upjohn said that unlawful behaviour might be constituted by : ( a ) an outright refusal to consider the relevant matter ; ( b ) a misdirection on a point of law ; ( c ) taking into account some wholly irrelevant or extraneous consideration ; ( d ) wholly omitting to take into account a relevant consideration .
24 Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east .
25 Mr Broadfoot said that local authorities were clearly prepared to put the resources into the new system so that it operated successfully .
26 Lord Simon said that these definitions were all effectively excluded by Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.6.4 ) .
27 Mr McInally said that forensic tests had revealed liquid petrol on the accused 's shirt and jeans .
28 Toure said that multiparty democracy was " a priority " and would be achieved " as soon as possible " .
29 Announcing the extension of the scheme , Energy Minister Tim Eggar said that further subsidies might be introduced in 1997-98 , with possible separate bands for wind power , hydroelectricity , landfill gas , waste incineration , agricultural and forestry waste and coppice fuel .
30 Dell Computer Corp international president Andrew Harris resigned and the company promoted Joel Kocher to president of all sales , marketing and service operations worldwide ; he had been president of Dell USA ; Dell said that both men were being considered for the post and after Kocher got the job , a disappointed Harris decided to resign .
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