Example sentences of "said [conj] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father stopped , looked at me for a bit and then said that in the circumstances I could go out that night — providing I milked the cows first . |
| 2 | The court said that in the circumstances of that case the auditor could not have been expected to act as a specialist valuer , and was therefore not liable for failing to reach that higher standard . |
| 3 | The judge said that in the circumstances he was prepared to grant Mr and Mrs Lauder 's claim for a right of way for pedestrians . |
| 4 | It said that in the run-up to an election , it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties . |
| 5 | Report author Jill Krutick said that in the meantime the race was on among the large hotel chains to achieve a pan-European presence with branded hotel products . |
| 6 | Mr Ram said that in the interests of press freedom he was offering The Hindu 's reports to rival newspapers . |
| 7 | On Slovak television on Aug. 21 Czechoslovakian Defence Minister Imrich Andrejcak said that in the event of a division of the federation , the army would be split up " in an organized manner under a combined command " . |
| 8 | Zuwaya said that in the past they achieved justice by threat and compensation , by massing lineages to menace vengeance . |
| 9 | The Government have consistently wrung their hands and said that in the past the services were awful . |
| 10 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 11 | In researching this book I read a quote from a well-known doctor working with girls with eating disorders : he said that in the West , if you are female and do not have hang-ups about your body , you are abnormal . |
| 12 | And he said that in the daytime you had landmarks to go by . |
| 13 | While Unix Labs 's value-added reseller and equity relationship with Chorus Systemes SA has prompted speculation that the Chorus microkernel would be used as a matter of course , Miracle said that in the US , and certainly in government circles , Carnegie Mellon University 's Mach was a popular choice . |
| 14 | Lord Justice Watkins said that in the case of the six officers , where two years — less 12 days — elapsed before the officers were summonsed , Mr Bartle exercised his discretion ‘ without any flaw ’ . |
| 15 | Lord Hodson said that in the case of agreements between commercial companies for regulating their trade relations the parties are usually the best judges of what is reasonable . |
| 16 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 17 | You said that in the nature of things you 've always needed the money almost as of yesterday . |
| 18 | Preobrazhensky said that in the transition period there are two laws : ( a ) the law of socialist ( sometimes primitive ) accumulation ; and ( b ) the law of value . |
| 19 | Mum said that in the opinion of Gran , it was God 's judgement — as whilst the bridegroom was almost sixty years of age , his bride was in her early twenties . |
| 20 | He said that in the business of insurance and insurance broking , a successful enterprise depends upon a number of factors which vary according to the nature of the customer , or client , with whom business is done . |
| 21 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |
| 22 | He also said that in the letter he told Mr Wilson that he was held in great esteem among Irish people , qualifying him to engage in political dialogue . |
| 23 | Belkheir said that in the unrest since January 103 people had died ( a revision of the previous figure — see p. 38790 ) and 414 had been wounded . |
| 24 | He said that in the absence of such evidence such allegations were " unwise , unfair and dangerous " . |
| 25 | Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology , said that in the area of robot applications ‘ more remains to be done ’ . |
| 26 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 27 | However , Lord Justice Lloyd , presiding over the latest appeal hearing at the Central Criminal Court in London , said that in the light of fresh evidence , which had become available since the previous hearing , their appeals would be allowed . |
| 28 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |
| 29 | Touring Rothman 's factory in Darlington he assures workers that such a ban would have no effect on sales or jobs , in fact , he said as in the case of Italy , tobacco sales would increase ! |