Example sentences of "as [verb] that the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |
| 2 | The former Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham , was reported as saying that the Government was ‘ thinking with its bottom and sitting on its head ’ . |
| 3 | Cayetano Paderanga , Economic Planning Secretary and Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority ( NEDA ) , was reported in May 1990 as saying that the government intended to loosen its monetary reins but to keep inflation in check at 11-13 per cent over 1990 by relying on fiscal restraint . |
| 4 | On April 5 the Guardian quoted the Iraqi Interior Minister , Ali Hasan al-Majid , as saying that the government had " material proof " of contacts between Kurdish leaders and " a neighbouring country " , believed to be Iran . |
| 5 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 6 | The seventh IAEA inspection team arrived in Baghdad on Oct. 11 , led by Demetrios Perricos , who was quoted in Baghdad on Oct. 22 as saying that the government had , for the first time , admitted research into nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | On Sept. 10 the US-based human rights group Africa Watch was cited as alleging that the government was seeking to eradicate Sudan 's approximately 1,000,000 Nuba people , a black African community dwelling in the Arab-dominated north . |