Example sentences of "saying the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Country Landowners Association opposes the project , saying the NGC should examine laying lines underground or along the seabed . |
| 2 | Organiser Merseyside police sergeant Howard Youdan , rejected the criticism , saying the coastguard and rescue services were informed . |
| 3 | So you 're saying the chances of getting four aces , provided you put it back each time and shuffled them again , would be sixteen out of fifty two . |
| 4 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 5 | But Mr Hugh Annesley , the RUC Chief Constable , who asked Mr Stevens to make his inquiry , has defended his actions , saying the surprise operation was the only way houses could be searched ensuring the security of the officers involved . |
| 6 | But the reconciliation bid failed , with close pals saying the pair have ‘ grown apart ’ . |
| 7 | The statement goes on to say that a first document was prepared by Compact saying the working week was 50 hours , but the incorrect forms were later destroyed and correct ones issued to the Middlesbrough area office of the careers service . |
| 8 | It offered the seventh floor as a compromise , saying the film-maker was ‘ lucky to get that ’ . |
| 9 | Before you move on madam chairman may I make a suggestion general approval , presumably we will be erecting a notice board er at the ground er and I would think it would be appropriate having selected the name that we make er erm some statement on the notice board saying the facility was originally provided by Southwell Parish Council . |
| 10 | After their special meeting , the ANC then released a statement saying the tour was still hanging in the balance ad pointed the blame squarely at Louis Luyt . |
| 11 | I think I 'm right in saying the plaster theatre 's booked for him on Tuesday afternoon next week . ’ |
| 12 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 13 | But the Evangelical Alliance UK , which says it represents a million churchgoers , immediately responded by saying the Church must not adopt society 's view of marriage as disposable and pre-marital sex as inevitable . |
| 14 | I am not saying the road is not ancient , it is older than the age of the Pilgrims and could even go back to Neolithic times . |
| 15 | Former EC environment commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana has expressed his support for opponents of the extension of the M3 through Twyford Down in Hampshire , saying the road project was a " brutal and unneeded monster " . |
| 16 | ‘ Some ladies who ring up are a bit shy of actually saying the word , ’ says Rance . |
| 17 | One morning he decided any pupil caught saying the word ‘ shrubbery' ’ was to be punished . |
| 18 | Remember , each of the above exercises is immediately preceded by taking a deep breath , creating tension , and holding it for five seconds , then exhaling while letting go the tension and saying the word ‘ relax ’ to yourself . |
| 19 | We could n't help but notice he had almost as much trouble saying the word ‘ marriage ’ at the COSE announcement at Uniforum as the word ‘ Motif . ’ |
| 20 | He makes his own connection between visual and auditory by saying the word . |
| 21 | Anything of a supposedly unmentionable nature she gave added emphasis to by leaving a little pause , peering suspiciously around her as though someone might be listening , then saying the word , or sentence , in a theatrical stage-whisper . |
| 22 | ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover . |
| 23 | Phil Barber , Barnard Castle National Farmers ' Union branch secretary , condemned the Intervention Board 's decision , saying the operators were particularly upset because they had just spent a lot of money to improve the facilities to offer a better service to customers . |
| 24 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 25 | Tracy said : ‘ I am very angry about this as they are saying the damp is due to the way I live . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not saying the man should be considered as a candidate for sainthood . |
| 27 | Your saying the work is urgent is the trigger , the result is lateness . |
| 28 | The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum . |
| 29 | Nicholas Ridley added to the general glee by saying the Government was in favour of legislation . |
| 30 | The former prime minister , Mr Edward Heath , signalled some Tory backbench unease by saying the Government had to realise there was a difference between subsidy and expenditure to help the environment . |