Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] say that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 2 | The British government says that it finances nine projects , including a recently opened satellite station in Nepal , and that it sees no necessity for a separate fund . |
| 3 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 4 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 5 | On Nov. 13 the Egyptian Interior Ministry said that it had no evidence to suggest that the guerrillas had entered Israel through Egyptian territory . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister said that it remained for him to wish his colleagues all good fortune in the difficult but hopeful situation which they had to face . |
| 7 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 8 | In paragraph 72 , the Select Committee says that it reflects ’ the lack of a long-term strategy and the failure to review the R & D role of the Government and other bodies in the wake of privatisation . ’ |
| 9 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 10 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |
| 11 | There is at least a plausible argument to say that it does not . |
| 12 | Opponents of the whole idea say that it subsidises drug abuse . |