Example sentences of "said [prep] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UNHCR director for international protection , quoted by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary , said in May this year that in western Europe unfounded cases clog the system . |
| 2 | Britain said on May 13th that it would penalise multinationals based in California if the unitary tax on worldwide profits were not scrapped by the end of the year . |
| 3 | As for Tatra 's T613 limousines , the company said on May 18th that it is looking for dealers to help sell them . |
| 4 | ‘ DURING the long cold-war period , ’ Warren Christopher , America 's secretary of state , said on May 20th , ‘ policies toward Africa were often determined not by how they affected Africa , but by what advantage they brought to Washington or Moscow . ’ |
| 5 | Fiat , whose market share in Italy has slid from around 60% to 44% in the past four years , said on May 25th that it will ask the Italian government for more financial help with temporary lay-offs , because of the slump in European car sales . |
| 6 | Henriques Tiago Nzita , claiming to be the FLEC leader , said on May 12 that the hostages had been released . |
| 7 | Mugabe said on May 2 , 1990 , that the government would amend the Constitution to speed up and simplify the redistribution of land , following the lapsing in April 1990 of the entrenched clauses of the Lancaster House agreement of 1980 , which stated that the government could only buy land which was freely offered for sale . |
| 8 | Vieira said on May 13 , 1990 , that the PAIGC had begun the process of creating conditions for the introduction of a multiparty system , adding that it was essential that this process developed in a spirit of dialogue and on a non-tribal basis . |
| 9 | In May New Forum demanded that people be given access to their personal files , but Peter-Michael Diestel , then Internal Affairs Minister , said on May 16 that he opposed such a move as he did not want to spread " a denunciatory atmosphere " in society again . |
| 10 | Subramanian Swamy , Minister of Law and Justice and of Commerce , said on May 29 that the government was convinced that the LTTE had been involved in the assassination . |
| 11 | The TAO director , Wang Zhaoguo , said on May 3 that the talks had achieved " initial success " and had promoted understanding and consensus . |
| 12 | Swedish Finance Minister Allan Larsson said on May 17 that Sweden would like to join the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system ( EMS ) " as soon as possible " and to participate in discussions on EC economic and monetary union . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the IAEA said on May 23 that stocks of enriched uranium had survived the Gulf war virtually intact , but were still recoverable . |
| 14 | Responding to the conduct of the first trial , United States President Bush said on May 21 that " it would be in Kuwait 's interest to extend a fair trial to everyone " . |
| 15 | The opposition fundamentalist party , the Islamic Constitutional Movement ( ICM ) , said on May 14 that five of its members had been arrested . |
| 16 | The Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba said on May 11 that 100 oilwell fires had been extinguished and the wells brought under control [ see pp. 37988 ; 38119 ; 38166 ] . |
| 17 | The Council of Ministers said on May 26 that " certain levels " of the movement were " using for political purposes … working people 's fair economic demands " . |
| 18 | The Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly , Saadi Mehdi Saleh , said on May 12 that the elections contravened the Iraqi Constitution , which forbade the holding of elections by armed groups . |
| 19 | ( Barzani said on May 24 that the legislative and executive councils of the Kurdistan autonomous region created under legislation of 1974 had not operated for over a year . |
| 20 | Iraq 's Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh said on May 18 that 50 per cent of cereal and seed stocks had been destroyed during the Gulf war , as had 95 per cent of livestock and poultry for breeding . |
| 21 | The UN special envoy , Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Petrovsky , had paid another visit to Libya on May 10-12 [ see also p. 38883 ] , and said on May 14 that the Libyan leader Col. Moamer al Kadhafi would ask the Libyan General People 's Committee to decide on the question of the extradition of the two Libyans wanted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing — a process which Petrovsky said would take four or five weeks . |
| 22 | The FLN secretary-general Abdelhamid Mehri said on May 9 that the repossessions would be challenged in the courts . |