Example sentences of "go on record " in BNC.
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| 1 | These stories are commonplace , although those involved are wary of going on record . |
| 2 | No one is willing to go on record with their feelings about Hamnett 's sometimes capricious behaviour , but one says privately : ‘ Like many creative people , she can be impossible to reason with , and the experience can be very painful . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sylvia and I want to go on record as protesting this outrageous incident in the ssstrongest possible articulation . ’ |
| 4 | He was offered little support as he walked the edge between the endowment , its critics , the art world and Congress , where even supporters of the arts were reluctant to go on record as voting ‘ for tax-funded pornography ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 6 | And the Democrats among them also know that if they went on record against a war that turned out to be a great victory , President Bush would be even harder to beat in 1992 . |
| 7 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 8 | She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive . |
| 9 | FORMER teen bride Mandy Smith is set to sue rock star Bill Wyman after he went on record admitting having under-age sex with her . |
| 10 | Though Mr Major went on record again and again during the election campaign to forecast a steady drop in taxes over four or five years , Ministers admit privately that the bill must go up , not down , in the spring Budget . |
| 11 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 12 | Even if that is not the whole truth , — clearly , the government has a crucial say -Mr de Klerk has gone on record as recognising that Mr Mandela has leverage in government decisions . |
| 13 | Paisley has gone on record time after time to condemn the assassination of Catholics and has insisted that the potential violence represented by the old Protestant Volunteers and more recently by the Third Force should only be exercised in a defensive manner and in the event of a complete breakdown of law and order . |
| 14 | Successive Lord Chancellors have gone on record stating their keenness to create a judiciary more representative of the population as a whole . |
| 15 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the debate on whether to replace mercury amalgam fillings continues — the American Dental Association has gone on record as saying that dentists who recommend replacing fillings may do so because of the often hefty fees they can charge for the work . |
| 17 | The Royal College of Physicians has gone on record as stating that ‘ there are reasonable grounds for the statement that , in genetically susceptible persons , large bowel cancer could be favoured by a fibre-depleted diet ’ . |
| 18 | Millionaire supremo Sir John Hall has gone on record to insist the bid was genuine , but that Newcastle are unlikely to pursue their interest . |
| 19 | Porterfield has already gone on record by saying the former England coach has easily proved to be his best signing . |
| 20 | According to the financial press , we are not alone in this dilemma and , indeed , in response to the concerns of some major quoted companies David Tweedie , ASB chairman , has gone on record to state that ‘ FRS 1 is embryonic ’ and that ‘ as a matter of routine , the Board collects all comments on published standards and , from time to time , depending on the issues raised , will consider whether any changes should be made . ’ |
| 21 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 22 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 23 | Roy Jenkins in 1965 was an exception , having gone on record in a book written for the 1959 general election with his personal , and unauthorized , programme for ‘ the wholesale reform of which the Home Office is still in urgent need ’ . |
| 24 | The present writer has gone on record elsewhere with the view that most of the ‘ new ’ powers in the Single European Act represented treaty recognition of developments which had already taken place under general treaty powers , in particular Articles 100 and 235 , in areas such as environmental law . |
| 25 | Robert Dexter flew home with Prior last night and Carlisle Flint have gone on record saying that they are not interested in a change of team . |
| 26 | The problem with the Minister 's logic is that his colleague , the other Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Wantage ( Mr. Jackson ) has recently gone on record saying that he believes that women should have pay parity with men in accordance with the law . |
| 27 | Arzú had already gone on record as saying that Belizean independence would not be recognized , and members of Guatemala 's National Congress claimed that Serrano 's decision flouted Article 173 of the Constitution which stated that territorial decisions regarding Belize " must be subject to the ratification of Congress , following the consultation of the Guatemalan people " . |
| 28 | A C Milan and Cappello the er Milan manager has gone on record as saying he 's as good as anything he 's ever seen . |
| 29 | Er it yes it it 's true to tell , gone on record on several occasions saying in terms of environmental capacity there 's the potential within Selby district to accommodate eleven and a half thousand dwellings , however I did later qualify those comments with reference to the emerging local plan , which is the main vehicle we 've we 've got for identifying potential development sites and the the qualification was that was that land is not necessarily available in in the right places , to enable us to make a a reasonable distribution for development in accordance with P P G advice , so that the question of a new settlement remains an extremely attractive option for Selby District , and as I mentioned this morning , in terms of whi we would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwelli whi we would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwellings short , in any case , erm |
| 30 | A spokesman for PT Astra has however gone on record as saying that the majority of the 6,000 jobs to be created will go to incomers from Java , settling in Irian Jaya under the Indonesian government 's Transmigration Programme . |