Example sentences of "said that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shildon said that a superior drinks carton had been invented and the MacQuillans faced the choice of buying the invention or seeing a competitor develop it and steal their market . |
| 2 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 3 | Watkins always said that the best photographs are taken ‘ along the ley ’ . |
| 4 | Congratulating the director on his meticulous work , Mr Keys said that the young characters , never O'Casey 's strong point , were played with great conviction . |
| 5 | During the meeting Brooke reportedly expressed the dismay of the UK government at these refusals , and reported on progress with unionist parties on the possibility of talks on devolution , while Collins said that the recent judgments on extradition had not been the responsibility of the Irish government . |
| 6 | A statement by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Feb. 5 said that the recent trials of Tiananmen dissidents fell " far short of international standards " . |
| 7 | Acheson said that the joint chiefs of staff preferred the latter course of action . |
| 8 | Lord Justice Taylor , recently appointed Lord Chief Justice , said that the 95 deaths during and after the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest might have been avoided in an all-seat stadium . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady also said that the assisted areas map had not changed since 1984 . |
| 10 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 11 | The engineers said that the O-bahn scores over light railways because the same buses can pick up and drop passengers in local streets before driving at high speed along the busway . |
| 12 | He said that the reserve powers to make pension orders would be used to secure existing pension rights if a subsidiary did not take the steps that , the Secretary of State considered appropriate to secure the pension rights of its employees . |
| 13 | It was Marshall ( the medium is the message ) McLuhan , the Canadian media guru , who said that the great revolutions in history had not been political or military , but the communication revolutions which altered the relationship between people in society . |
| 14 | Summing up his goodwill mission , Benavides said that the sharp differences between the two sides would only be overcome by a political decision made at highest level . |
| 15 | She said that the radical changes in eastern Europe had given the organization a new lease of life as a potential " pan-European forum of the democracies " . |
| 16 | You will remember that I said that the general principles I proposed still left room for discretion and interpretation . |
| 17 | The Times reporter also quoted a British General urging his men to ‘ Go on the paras , go and get them ’ , and said that the lower ranks appeared to him to be relishing their work and perceiving the Bogsiders as ‘ legitimate targets ’ ( ibid.:41 ) . |
| 18 | She said that the power-generating companies would have to be forced to reduce emissions from power stations . |
| 19 | She said that the increased charges to her , and she is totally immobile , except as I understand it from being able to move her head , the increased charges to her would be thirty seven per cent of her total weekly income of eighty pounds . |
| 20 | Making clear the role of the armed forces in keeping cicil order when necessary , however , the statement said that the armed forces would " under no circumstances allow intranational armed clashes " to develop in Yugoslavia , and that no inter-republican dispute would be allowed to escalate into violence . |
| 21 | The Egyptian press said that the armed men belonged to the Jihad and had attempted to take control of the mosque after driving out its imam . |
| 22 | In response to my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East , the Minister said that the transitional arrangements will take between six and 16 months . |
| 23 | On Feb. 25 Lamouri said that the Religious Affairs Ministry hoped to appoint new imams to about 40 per cent of the country 's 9,073 mosques , many of which , he said , had been taken over by individuals not competent to preach . |
| 24 | When , therefore , Nesselrode said that the European revolutions of 1830 turned Nicholas into " the impartial defender of European equilibrium " , he did not mean that the tsar had decided to back his " impartiality " with force . |
| 25 | She said that the traditional methods of maintaining hedgerows was another area in which she was involved . |
| 26 | And they said that the loyalist killers would only be called off the streets after the IRA expressed a willingness for a ceasefire . |
| 27 | President Rafael Leonardo Callejas of Honduras said that the economic prospects of exclusion were " unacceptable and catastrophic for us " and that Caribbean producers were very inefficient . |
| 28 | He also said that the Cork-based importers of the two brands only dealt with distilleries in Russia whose ‘ quality control and facilities meet international standards ’ . |
| 29 | He said that the only questions under discussion were whether Ramsey was Ramsey and whether he had been legally elected . |
| 30 | Referring to SPLA dissidents known as the Nasir group [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] , he said that the only towns taken by the government forces were those " which depend on our dissidents … who have defected and chosen the camp of Gen. Bashir " . |