Example sentences of "[noun] official [conj] saying that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 22 quoted US administration officials as saying that they strongly suspected that Israel had supplied cluster bombs to the Ethiopian Air Force . |
| 2 | A Washington Post report of Oct. 9 , 1989 , quoted US administration officials as saying that a decision had been made during an unusually secretive policy review that the USA would continue to produce chemical weapons over a 10-year phaseout period after the conclusion of an international treaty to ban the weapons ( see negotiations above ) . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of May 29 , 1989 , quoted US officials as saying that Iraq had agreed to pay $27,300,000 in compensation to the families of the 37 US crew members who had been killed in May 1987 during Iraq 's missile attack on the USS Stark in the Gulf [ see p. 35597 ] . |
| 4 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 5 | On July 10 the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda had quoted a senior police official as saying that up to 800 people were missing , presumed dead , from the June violence throughout Osh oblast . |
| 6 | The Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of March 8 quoted an Algerian Red Cross official as saying that an estimated 9,000,000 Iraqis were in danger of disease as a result of medical shortages , and that the mortality rate in emergency cases had risen from 6 per cent to 20 per cent . |