Example sentences of "said [that] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 2 | Mrs Joel said that the first year she did it she used almost all privet , as she was frightened of running out of material half way through and she knew there was always plenty of that around . |
| 3 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 4 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 5 | Presenting the package to the Federal Assembly on June 30 , Prime Minister Ante Markovic said that the first stage had reduced the month-on-month inflation rate from 64 per cent in December 1989 to zero in April 1990 . |
| 6 | Commander Richard Compton-Hall , museum director , said that the first step in salvage was to get any party with a claim to the wreck to relinquish it to the museum . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East quoted the experts waste recovery association and said that the first priority should be waste minimisation . |
| 8 | Mr Lang said that the first priority of Scottish teachers should be to ensure their pupils were literate and numerate . |