Example sentences of "[adv] said [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't have to defend myself to you , or explain myself , especially when you 've just said that the truth is irrelevant ! ’ |
| 3 | I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends . |
| 4 | I have already said that the Government are considering the matter urgently . |
| 5 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 6 | I 've already said that the neck feels wonderful , but the good vibes do n't stop there . |
| 7 | ‘ Their marketing people had already said that the product had no future in angling , ’ Chilton said . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend the Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) has already said that the information is there . |
| 9 | I have already said that the Opposition support the Bill . |
| 10 | It is usually said that the introduction of NEP pacified the peasants , but the Famine had a quicker effect in this respect . |
| 11 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 12 | I think it was once said that the mark of an undergraduate is someone who turns every discussion into an argument . |
| 13 | ‘ But they have always said that the Queen has remained very friendly and helpful to Diana through her illness and her marriage problems . |
| 14 | It was further said that the reason for limiting the application of subsection ( 2 ) to those third parties who are knowingly concerned in the contravention is that an order addressed directly to a third party ( as opposed to the contravener acting by his servants or agents ) would only be necessary where the third party had an interest of his own in the subject-matter of the order . |
| 15 | It is also said that the Vikings introduced the finchback characteristic to Normandy in the ninth or tenth century and , according to a detailed history of the Gloucester breed by Adam Stout , there could be a common ancestry with the finchbacked Longhorn of Lancashire through Scandinavian cattle brought to Shetland , Ireland and Lancashire by the Vikings . |
| 16 | Several members of the NBS Committee have also said that the rules and regulations which govern the sale should be changed . |
| 17 | But Elaine had also said that the Counsellors had cut open Christina 's head , and that when Elaine had looked at her sister 's body , the head had been empty . |
| 18 | It was also said that the Allies ' freedom to employ satellites , both for intelligence and communications purposes , gave them a decided edge over their adversary . |
| 19 | It seems to me therefore , without laying down the proposition that the Moray Firth is for every purpose within the territorial sovereignty , it can at least be clearly said that the appellant can not make out his proposition that it is inconceivable that the British legislature should attempt for fishery regulation to legislate against all and sundry in such a place . |
| 20 | The courts have repeatedly said that the police are not entitled to conduct dragnet searches yet , prior to the Act , a series of decisions appeared to encourage the police to go far beyond the terms of the warrant . |
| 21 | He could have straightforwardly said that the label-switcher had assumed one of the rights of the owner and had therefore appropriated . |
| 22 | It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true . |
| 23 | It is often said that the North East was populated by successive generations of industrial scabs . |
| 24 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 25 | For example , it was often said that the sky was full of stars . |
| 26 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 27 | It is often said that the agenda of the Justice Model , although originally proposed by liberals and radicals who wished to reduce the overall harshness of punishment , was ‘ co-opted ’ in the late 1970s and 1990s by the political Right ( eg Bottoms , 1990a : 11 ; Hudson , 1997 : 72 ) . |
| 28 | It is often said that the aikido adept resembles the eye of a hurricane . |
| 29 | It is often said that the hammer axle bushing in the Kapsel , or fork in which the hammer shank is mounted , absorbs enough of the energy of the returning hammer to act as a check . |
| 30 | IT IS often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the only superpower . |