Example sentences of "says [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Levy says that this kind of scheme is ‘ good for a strong public company . |
| 2 | Mr Yuri Petrov , the astute Soviet ambassador in Havana , says that this year , as well as the usual nickel , citrus fruit and 4m tons of sugar , his country plans to buy Cuban pharmaceutical products worth $730m , including in particular the hepatitis-B vaccine developed at Havana 's Biotechnology Institute . |
| 3 | The company says that this year it plans to introduce an ‘ impressive ’ number of new products , including ‘ entry-level to technologically advanced ’ desktop and notebook personal computers , printers and servers , and has development efforts under way to address emerging technologies such as Intel Corp 's Pentium processor , ones with full motion video and stereo sound , pen-based machines and ‘ other small form-factor devices , ’ the firm promised . |
| 4 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 5 | Yet when he says that this change is not deliberate , he raises the fear that he might go back to a Thatcherite policy , if and when he has the chance . |
| 6 | A pilot is currently required to enter the canal and can be called up on VHF Ch16 , but canal director , Seppo Koivupuro , says that this requirement may soon cease . |
| 7 | Counselling Help and Advice Together ( address on page 154 ) , an organisation for nurses , says that this difficulty is not as common as it used to be as fewer nursing staff actually ‘ live in ’ . |
| 8 | Ancient Hindu tradition says that this life force , known as Sakti or the ‘ energy of the gods ; , materialises in the form of a spiral and brings with it the forces of attraction and repulsion . |
| 9 | Quine says that this thesis is owed to Pierre Duhem ; we can call it Duhem 's thesis ( Quine , 1969 , p. 80 ) . |
| 10 | Greenpeace says that this gap ‘ will almost certainly have to be met by further ‘ waste profiteering ’ from other countries — a practice which guarantees profits for incineration companies and subsidises the incineration of UK-originated waste ’ . |
| 11 | In his definitive book Elgar On Record , Jerrold Northrop Moore says that this item was recorded before the landlines were working ; but the ‘ Woodland Interlude ’ from Caractacus was recorded under his supervision and this item plus the first half of Dream Children was later copied onto the same side for publication . |
| 12 | The importance of ISDN is as the foundation for the entire model ; the single , standard interface through which all the rest will be provided : ‘ Our model says that this guy needs one interface ’ , says Corris , then he can decide when making a call that he wants to use certain intelligent aspects of the network , he can say ‘ I need another channel … |
| 13 | Sotheby 's says that this practice of selling old pictures to buy new ones in common practice . |
| 14 | The blurb says that this book was written ‘ to help people learn from their elders and betters ’ . |
| 15 | One can not imagine , for example , a geophysicist ignoring the results of his seismic surveys because they got in the way of his theories , and yet Weiss says that this sort of possibility exists in bad or unscrupulous social science research . |