Example sentences of "say it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know some say it had a trunk |
| 2 | The couple say it bore no relation to plans they had inspected and that Mr Minashi slammed the phone down when they rang . |
| 3 | The council says it had no choice … jobs are being cut to help maintain services as they struggle to balance the budget . |
| 4 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 5 | Dell says it delayed the introduction of the Dimension machines until the small office and home office market picked up outside the US , but it also had to get its European manufacturing facility in Limerick , Ireland tooled up . |
| 6 | Organisers Editions Larivière says it made the decision not to proceed ‘ for its own reasons ’ . |
| 7 | This oarsman says it took a bite out of his blade . |
| 8 | The company says it shipped a record 52,000 units , including desktop computers and servers ( exclusive of upgrades ) during the quarter , and that SunSoft Inc distributed a record number of Unix licences , more than 70,000 , to users of Sparc-based and iAPX-86-based kit , to manufacturers of Sparc-based machines and to other licensees . |
| 9 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 10 | The company says it converted the figures at $0.142 to the Swedish krona , the rate that obtained on December 31 . |
| 11 | The British Australian Studies Association says it organised the conference to get a greater understanding on Australian culture . |
| 12 | SynOptics Communications Inc has announced an order from the Unipart Group of Companies for its System 3000 intelligent hubs , which will be used to spearhead the latter 's migration from IBM Corp mainframe systems to personal computer local networks : the order comes via network integrator Harris Adacom , and comprises seven System 3000 hubs which will be used to run Token Ring and Ethernet ; the total contract is worth £250,000 , and SynOptics says it won the order ahead of competition from Cabletron and IBM . |
| 13 | The Spider Software unit of Spider Systems Ltd up in Edinburgh will be quietly cheering as Microsoft Corp launches Windows NT at Comdex this week : its SpiderTCP TCP/IP protocol is included in NT and Microsoft is also using SpiderStreams as the environment for running parallel protocol drivers ; the Scottish firm says it won the contract after Microsoft put the communications work out to international tender . |
| 14 | Reporting for the first time on its environmental emissions , the UK subsidiary of Swiss chemicals and drugs giant Ciba-Geigy says it increased the amount of waste it incinerated in 1991 while reducing the amount sent for landfill . |
| 15 | Prior to announcing production status , EcoSystems says it put the products through a four-month beta test programme covering a dozen US organisations featuring a diverse assortment of Unix hardware and Oracle relational database configurations . |
| 16 | Labour leader Coun John Williams accused Coun Richmond of hypocrisy and said in the past when Labour had debated South Africa the Tories had said it had no relevance for Darlington . |
| 17 | It 's said it lost the South the American Civil War , because Southern troops did n't have boots . |
| 18 | From the beginning the group had said it wanted the paper to be international , and It was . |
| 19 | However , the company took the sting out of a halved dividend by saying it thought the figures were the low point in its fortunes and the only way to go was up . |
| 20 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 21 | His gentle manner of saying it robbed the remark of any reproof it might otherwise have carried . |
| 22 | Citibank issued a statement … this afternoon … saying it had no record of any formal offer from potential purchasers … its is always our policy to work closely with customers who have difficulties in oredr to reach agreement . |
| 23 | Most women had strong views on EC membership , with 45 per cent saying it cut the chance of war . |
| 24 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 25 | Needless to say it carried no prints . |
| 26 | He used to say it polluted the environment . |
| 27 | Shares of Cirrus Logic Inc plunged 30% on heavy volume following the company 's disappointing fiscal fourth quarter figures ( CI No 2,158 ) : Cirrus reported earnings of 10 cents a share , and the mean estimate of seven analysts surveyed by First Call had put fourth-quarter earnings at 31 cents a share ; Cirrus said it experienced a decline in profitability because of demand fluctuations in the disk-drive industry , where inventories are high ; analysts said its earnings wo n't improve until the September quarter ; disk guru Jim Porter , president of Disk/Trend , said some of Cirrus ' earnings shortfall is likely coming from Conner Peripherals Inc , which also recently disappointed Wall Street with its own results , because the rest of the disk drive industry is still healthy ; analysts also told Reuter that Cirrus is facing tougher competition in disk controllers from Adaptec Inc , Milpitas , California . |
| 28 | Gordon Smith , Caledonian 's sales director — the company is increasing its sponsorship though it remains coy on an amount — said it viewed the association with Currie as long term . |
| 29 | SCO said it felt no need to formally resign because of the loose construction of the initiative . |
| 30 | Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp said it cut the prices on the LinkBuilder FMS TP twisted-pair stackable hub and accompanying network management software products : the hub is cut 10% to $1,000 , and a new six-port fibre hub , the third member of the LinkBuilder family , will would begin shipping in May at $2,300 ; core IsoView Network Management software is slashed to $645 from $3,000 . |