Example sentences of "[n mass] said [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the accompanying chairman 's statement , John Partridge said that the market for the year covered had been one the of the most difficult he had seen in thirty years of heading the company , with a particularly poor level of sales in the early summer months . |
| 2 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 3 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 4 | Of CRUS 's respondents , 39% said that they had a training officer , while 32% of our sample indicated that a designated or nominated officer ( or specified training team ) spent at least one-quarter of their time on training . |
| 5 | In a questionnaire follow up of mainly polysymptomatic patients ( median duration nine years , 70% response ) the number of severe and frequent symptoms had reduced from five to one per patient more than six months after inpatient investigation and 38% said that they were well or almost well . |
| 6 | ‘ Some people said that he 'd have to change his style when he turned professional , but so far he 's stuck to his natural game , and he has n't done badly with it so far . |
| 7 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 8 | ‘ People said that because Daddy never let us mix with them . ’ |
| 9 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 10 | But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice . |
| 11 | Many people said that they had an enjoyable afternoon and made a significant dent in their Christmas shopping list ; it was really nice to see so many members there . |
| 12 | Some people said that Mark was an actor , a hype-artist , an image-projector . |
| 13 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 14 | Only two people said that there would be no difference of any kind if there were no school in the community . |
| 15 | Before Laventhol & Horwath , people said that it would never happen ; now they know that it can . |
| 16 | Benny went on down the street , past the empty shop which people said that a real Italian from Italy was going to open up . |
| 17 | In both surveys , the great majority of people said that they favoured the plan . |
| 18 | People said that she was as wild as the Moor itself and just as changeable . |
| 19 | Several people said that they had been asked to lecture to a wide range of students and colleagues on the subject of their particular disability , or disability in general . |
| 20 | A further eight people said that they had been helped to gain access to training by an influential person . |
| 21 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 22 | He was young and good-looking — and some people said that Queen Elizabeth was in love with him . |
| 23 | People said that she had become nicer , quieter , but harder to get at than ever , if you knew what they meant . |
| 24 | Most people said that when they wanted to drink they drank alcohol and when they did n't , they did n't want an imitation of it . |
| 25 | Some people said that gambling should be illegal throughout the City . |
| 26 | People said that it was when his father died , rather than when his long suffering wife did , that George 's drink problem got out of control . |
| 27 | Human rights groups and local people said that the dead were the victims of a massacre in December 1981 by the elite US-trained Atlacatl battalion , which was yet to be disbanded . |
| 28 | The environmental pressure group Glasgow For People said that it had called on MPs to urge Strathclyde to cancel its plans for Glasgow road projects costing more than £200 million . |
| 29 | The result was a record based on events rather than on reason : things people said or did on particular historical occasions and in particular circumstances . |
| 30 | The well drafted schedule only requires checking afterwards , it does not require another couple of hours ' work trying to remember what people said or what one 's own peculiar hieroglyphics made during the interview were meant to convey . |