Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun] says " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 2 | Overhead is the splendid architraved knife-edge about which the guidebook says : ‘ Delightful open and delicate climbing … ‘ and : ‘ Small wires have made a difference to this once very bold lead . ’ |
| 3 | The component in question is cylinder part No. 641917 and earlier versions , which the Board says should be subject to an AD calling for periodic non-destructive inspection to detect cracks or defects in the rocker shaft bosses . |
| 4 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 6 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 7 | At their annual conference in Edinburgh , members of the National Union of Students Scotland agreed to demonstrate against the Government measures , which the union says would sap funds from all kinds of student activities . |
| 8 | One difficulty is its unfunded pension obligations , which the PBGC says amount to some $800m . |
| 9 | The winners will receive an 18-week business training course — which the foundation says is worth £5000 — at Stirling University in the autumn . |
| 10 | The pylons proposal , which the NGC says is necessary to cope with electricity from a new power station at Wilton , has received a further setback . |
| 11 | This is the background to the drought of 1982 , which the government says could be as bad as the one 10 years before . |
| 12 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 13 | The PDS-3 machines , which the company says it is pitching between Sun 's Sparcstation 2 and Sparcstation 10 offerings — will be available in the UK from Pinnacle Data Systems Europe Ltd , Dunstable , Bedfordshire — formerly known as Unix Solutions and now trading under the Pinnacle name — with European distributors being lined up . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , hopes are high that plants at Cowley and Swindon will benefit from links with Honda which the company says it will build on . |
| 15 | Here , on 18 October 1016 , he defeated the English in a struggle in which the chronicler says that all their best men fell . |
| 16 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 17 | Would not it be easy to accede to the commissioner 's request to change the three points in the regulation which the Commission says are defective and deal with Crown immune areas , reduce the latitude given to authorities and ensure that environmental assessments are recorded in writing so that we have proper regulations and proper environmental impact assessments ? |
| 18 | The roaming agreement , which the operator says is the first of several to be signed this year , already enables Swiss users to call into the region of France that extends from south of Auxerre in northern Burgundy to Marseille and Nice . |
| 19 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 20 | When sleep threatens to take him from me yet another time , I remind Crilly of a line from the film Drugstore Cowboy , in which the heroine says , ‘ You never fuck me and I always have to drive ’ . |
| 21 | A parliamentary commission if inquiry ( the CPI ) has been set up to investigate any moves to protect Indians or the environment — which the CPI says are ploys to disguise foreign interests in the Amazon 's vast natural resources . |
| 22 | Manufacturers in five countries , Britain , Canada the US , Japan and the Philippines , have been selling farmyard pumps , which the association says have ‘ failed miserably ’ because they can not stand up to all-day use . |
| 23 | If all can be made relatively understandable to newcomers , then they will be better disposed to listening to the word of God preached with conviction , which the Bible says contains the seed of life to those who are otherwise perishing . |
| 24 | Along with 252 other investors , he is included in the £50,000-to-£100,000 category who the DTI says will get 80 per cent of their money back . |
| 25 | Learners like hand-outs , but they should not be used with monotonous regularity to echo everything the teacher says . |
| 26 | Whatever the law says — and there 's now a new law on the future of children which abolishes the concepts of custody and access — in reality divorce is still largely a woman 's prerogative . |
| 27 | Whatever the syllabus says , the teacher and the school to some degree choose their own language medium . |
| 28 | The s the revolution of social services called for a rolling programme and a rolling review and the amendment Mr is utterly meaningless because the matter will be constantly referred back and further considered by social services whatever the amendment says that 's what the original resolution said . |
| 29 | Whatever the entry says is what lies in store for the opener . |
| 30 | This suggests that there are some innate instincts in human beings to do things whatever the socialisation says . |