Example sentences of "[verb] say [conj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Medical Association has said that if the legislation does require authorities to keep to drug budgets , the association will see that as a cash limit and cry ‘ foul ’ after accepting assurances from Mr Clarke last week that budgets would not operate as cash limits . |
| 2 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 3 | Now I am sure that some readers will write to say that if the player is moving forward then if he drops the ball it must be moving forward also . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Fenemore , they do say that if a man has done wrong , and has been punished for it , that should be the end of it . |
| 5 | Combined Concerns had said that after the shed ceased to be used by the railway , it had several business uses , but none proved viable . |
| 6 | George L. Monahan Jr , had said that although the prospect of East-West nuclear conflict had declined , the spread of ballistic missiles among developing countries now made the project more important than ever . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure your wrong , ’ said Anna , but she remembered how Maria Jakob had said that if the money was not forthcoming she must think of something else , a way to make up to her for Melusina 's death , and she had not meant a donation to the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 8 | In 1924 Einstein had said that if the ideas , then in the air , of renouncing strict causality proved to be correct he would " rather be a cobbler , or even an employee in a gambling house , than a physicist " . |
| 9 | Some soldiers had said that when the war was over they did not want to take up Party work any longer : ‘ Many of them think that they have done enough through their service at the Front or also behind the front-lines , and point to those of similar age or younger who were not soldiers . ’ |
| 10 | It was true that he had never said he would marry me , but he had said that when the war was over he would write to me and try to come back . |
| 11 | Lord Wilberforce had said that where a person created a risk and injury occurred within that area of risk , the burden of proof was reversed and the defendant had to prove that his negligence was not a cause . |
| 12 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 13 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 14 | We have said that when a logogen reaches threshold ‘ a response is available ’ ; but since there are two output routes from the logogen system ( to the cognitive system and to the response buffer ) this term is ambiguous . |