Example sentences of "[num] [noun] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 21 Vellayati said that Iran was unlikely to accept Kurdish " safe havens " near its borders . |
| 2 | At a news conference on Dec. 5 Stoltenberg said that members had agreed to pool their military resources in the event of US troop reductions in Europe following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact . |
| 3 | It was nice to hear the radio 5 commentator say that Leeds play one of the most attractive styles of football around . |
| 4 | On April 3 Vellayati said that Iran would keep its borders open . |
| 5 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 6 | One theory says that tigers evolved in the far north . |
| 7 | One argument says that mammals only began to grow larger when they no longer needed to lead furtive , skulking lives , hiding in crannies to avoid the fearsome dinosaurs . |
| 8 | It is one thing to say that decisions made by magistrates and judges contribute directly to the crisis by adding to the number of people held in prison at any one time . |
| 9 | One report says that No. 26 was even more thoroughly rebuilt and re-classified ‘ Type K/2 ’ , ( the writer has seen no photographic evidence , but confirmed in official list ) . |
| 10 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 11 | Among correspondents over 65 , 40 p.c. said that English should be the official language of Europe . |
| 12 | Presenting his government programme on March 9 Dehaene said that priorities were ( i ) completion of the constitutional reforms started under Martens [ see p. 38465 ] ; ( ii ) " social renovation " ; and ( iii ) reducing the public debt and the budget deficit . |
| 13 | No other details were disclosed , but a meeting in Moscow with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah on Feb. 14 Gorbachev said that Primakov had " met with some flexibility from the regime in Baghdad " . |
| 14 | In a national broadcast on Jan. 24 Menem said that Argentina was in a state of " moral emergency " due to corruption ; he announced that government and military officials and employees of state enterprises would be required to submit a list of their assets , and he promised a purge of his personal advisers . |