Example sentences of "said that [noun prp] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unconfirmed reports in late November said that Russia had agreed to sell 20 MiG-29 fighter aircraft to help India install a fourth squadron on its northern border with Pakistan . |
| 2 | Coinciding with a three-day visit by the then Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres from Nov. 27 , 1989 , a government spokesman said that Poland intended to restore diplomatic relations with Israel in early 1990 after a break of 22 years . |
| 3 | On March 14 the Malaysian Foreign Minister , Omar Abu Hassan , said that ASEAN had agreed in principle to accept the Soviet Union as a dialogue partner , and was also considering China , Vietnam and Burma in the same capacity . |
| 4 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 5 | Commenting on Storage Technology Corp 's proposed acquisition of Amperif Corp ( see front ) EMC Corp chairman said the development , and IBM Corp 's new storage products pose no threat to his company : ‘ We 're two years ahead of everybody , ’ Egan told Reuter in a telephone interview from his Hopkinton , Massachusetts headquarters ; he said that EMC has shipped 2,000 of its disk array storage devices over the past two years — and the Amperif deal means ‘ one fewer competitor . ’ |
| 6 | A report from the news agency TASS on Jan. 17 said that Yeltsin had revoked his decree of Dec. 19 [ see pp. 38654-55 ] merging the security and internal affairs bodies . |
| 7 | Expressing concern about calls for Taiwan independence , he said that China had noted the Taiwan authorities ' " strong stand " against independence activists . |
| 8 | During talks in Beijing on Aug. 10 with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu [ see p. 38395 ] , Li Peng said that China had agreed " in principle " to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 9 | In response to Australian concerns about human rights , Zhu acknowledged differences but said that China wanted to exchange views . |
| 10 | Others said that Sawyer had panicked and gone straight out and given the signal without first doing the reconnoitring for which Ryan had allowed time . |
| 11 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 12 | Speaking at a press conference in the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 30 , 1989 , the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , said that Iran had accepted a four-point UN proposal including simultaneous troop withdrawal and prisoner exchange , but that Iraq had rejected the idea . |
| 13 | It said that Iran had executed 224 people between January and July 1992 , at least 66 of whom had been put to death for political reasons , and that at least 199 members of the minority Baha'i community had been killed during " systematic " persecution of their sect . |
| 14 | Freddie the Nark 's impersonation of a police officer had sounded convincing to him , until he said that Peggie had fallen at her home . |
| 15 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 16 | The statement , which coincided with the inspection of a research centre near Salman Pak , 30 km south-east of Baghdad , by a team of UN biological weapons experts who had arrived in Iraq on Aug. 2 , was confirmed by the team 's head , David Kelly , who said that Iraq had undertaken research using anthrax and the food poisoning toxin , botulinum , but that his team had found no evidence of the manufacture of biological weapons . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , reports on July 20 said that Iraq had admitted to building a " super-gun " capable of firing shells more than 1,000 km [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ] . |
| 18 | A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) assessing the findings of the seventh and eighth UN nuclear inspection teams which visited Iraq on Oct. 11-22 and Nov. 11-18 respectively , said that Iraq had established " a large , secure and highly successful procurement network " in support of its uranium-enrichment and weapons manufacturing operations . |
| 19 | However , on Dec. 17 a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in Baghdad said that Iraq had refused exit visas to Soviet workers whose contracts had not yet expired . |
| 20 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , in a report on Jan. 17 summarizing the activities of the ninth UN nuclear inspection team which visited Iraq on Jan. 12-14 , said that Iraq had acquired from Germany large quantities of components used to produce several thousand high-speed centrifuges for enriching weapons-grade uranium . |
| 21 | Mr Aitken said that Ferranti had beaten impressive international competition for the contract . |
| 22 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that Mubarak had sent a personal envoy to hold talks with Kadhafi . |
| 23 | Although the paper said that Wilko HAD made an offer it still could be a load of Bull . |
| 24 | Blackburn chairman Rob Coar said that Warhurst had undergone a medical and x-rays , the results of which would not be known until next week . |
| 25 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
| 26 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 27 | A joint communiqué issued after the visit , the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 15 years , said that India had agreed to revise upwards , from Rs350,000,000 to Rs500,000,000 , a three-year stand-by credit extended to Nepal . |
| 28 | Reports in late August said that Germany had increased pressure on its western allies to agree to a ban on short-range nuclear weapons and was locked in conflict with France over its refusal to cancel the Hades short-range nuclear missile programme . |
| 29 | During the course of meetings with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other officials , Kravchuk said that Ukraine intended to become nuclear-free by 1994 , and confirmed that Ukraine 's armed forces would have a maximum strength of 220,000 . |
| 30 | Others said that Clinker had gone mad at the fusing point and could n't restrain himself . |