Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resignation of the Cabinet was not confirmed until Nov. 13 , when President Pascal Lissouba met senior officers of the armed forces and said that new parliamentary elections would be held . |
| 2 | I believe the present main warning is that they should not be used with ‘ canmotors ’ , and the May issue of Continental Modeller reviewing a German-made locomotive quotes the accompanying leaflet as saying that it is powered by a ‘ Faulhaber ’ motor which must not be used with ‘ pulse power units ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |
| 4 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 5 | The council believes the change of use would be detrimental to adjoining occupiers and the surrounding area and says that there is already an existing taxi office use approved for premises nearby in Bowesfield Lane . |
| 6 | Official press reports quoted the Prime Minister as saying that normal freedoms might be curbed with effect from Dec. 4 , and further stated that he had ordered the dissolution of a " spider 's web " of bodies alleged to support the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) [ see pp. 38790-91 for Feb. 1992 introduction of state of emergency ] . |
| 7 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 8 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 9 | Dr Bach himself believed that his flower remedies helped to bring the physical , emotional and mental planes of the individual more into harmony with the spiritual plane and said that there could be ‘ no true healing unless there is a change in outlook , peace of mind and inner happiness ’ . |
| 10 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 11 | He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT . |
| 12 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |