Example sentences of "officials say they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But council officials say they 've done as much as they can to protect their female staff . |
| 2 | As of early February , society officials say they had received no response to their request from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs . |
| 3 | A warning about the beans was published by trading standards in Birmingham last year … but Oxfam officials say they had no idea of the danger until this week |
| 4 | Immigration officials say they help channel drug-runners and undocumented workers into remote places , where they are more easily picked up . |
| 5 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 6 | Treasury officials say they want to save one billion pounds on defence , the opening demand in a vicious Whitehall battle . |
| 7 | EPA officials say they do n't know who prepared what 's come to be known as the EPA 's hit-list . |
| 8 | The father of seven has called for the teacher to be suspended but education officials say they do not plan any drastic action . |
| 9 | British officials say they believe this conference will not be obsessed with South Africa , as previous meetings have been . |
| 10 | Defense officials say they have not yet forbidden any publication , but insist that they possess the power to do so if they choose . |
| 11 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 12 | Government officials say they aim to reform the economy gradually while shielding the country 's ten million people from the pain of full-blooded ‘ shock therapy ’ as attempted in Russia and elsewhere . |