Example sentences of "[coord] say [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Secretary of State lay aside diplomatic niceties for a moment and say that that hope has receded since July as a direct result of the intransigence of Mr. Denktash , who has made no move despite the fact that concessions have been made by the other side ? |
| 2 | Some criticise aspects of his theories , for example that the first 5 years of childhood are all important and say that all years of childhood are vitally important . |
| 3 | The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored . |
| 4 | asks that you send any details to him personally : , and says that all letters will be acknowledged . |
| 5 | My mother says that , as a very little girl , she remembers my grandfather coming home one night in tears and saying that all London was burning . |
| 6 | Commenting on the killing on Nov. 7 of a two-year-old child by an ETA car-bomb intended for his policeman father , Extabe described the ETA leadership as " four imbeciles " and said that such operations were turning Basque opinion as well as general opinion against ETA . |
| 7 | Wilson described the talks as " splendid " and said that all sides had engaged in " hard , thorough and committed work " but all parties observed diplomatic silence on details . |
| 8 | In a report published on Aug. 5 the human rights group Amnesty International ( AI ) cited a witness who spoke of mass executions and human rights abuses in the inter-clan conflicts of recent months , and said that this report was consistent with others received by AI . |
| 9 | She 's spoken out very clearly and said that those rumours are baseless . ’ |
| 10 | THE East German leader , Erich Honecker , yesterday compared unrest in his country to China 's pro-democracy uprising earlier this year , and said that any attempt to undermine communism in East Germany would be doomed to failure . |
| 11 | After the shadow cabinet met in London to draw up a campaign strategy , the Labour leader dismissed reports of a split and said that any perception of divisions in the party was without foundation . |
| 12 | For what remains throughout of central interest and importance are the ontological claims expressed in such propositions , and to say that such propositions communicate certain characteristics of relevant concepts does little to explain the meaning of such claims . |
| 13 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 14 | The Times of Dec. 11 , however , had quoted an Icelandic doctor who had headed the intensive care unit at the Mubarak al-Kabir hospital , who described as " not true " the reports that Iraqi looting had contributed to the deaths of premature babies , but said that some babies had died " because of lack of staff " . |