Example sentences of "[noun sg] say that by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prison department said that by 9.30am the vast majority of prisoners had surrendered and by 11.15 the remaining handful of inmates had given themselves up . |
| 2 | The church 's response says that by its own admission the Scottish Office Education Department recognises the inadequacies of its proposals . |
| 3 | He interprets this in terms of the story of the Fall saying that by " inward biholdyng " man can see in his nature : and fastens on the dynamic nature of the longing to recover what appears to be lost as the material to be worked with . |
| 4 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 5 | While a small number of individuals in Elizabethan England stood outside this Calvinist consensus , as Nicholas Tyacke has commented : ‘ it is not an exaggeration to say that by the end of the sixteenth century the Church of England was largely Calvinist in doctrine . ’ |
| 6 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 7 | Virgin says that by expanding aggressively and bucking the trend it 's been able to get some really hard bargains . |
| 8 | There 's Sony Corp saying that by simply engraving a spiral groove on the surface of the platter , it reckons it can store 1.5Gb in a 2.5″ disk drive . |
| 9 | An MP says that by the time the technology 's developed , Britain wo n't have a coal industry . |
| 10 | Americas Watch said that by 1986 overcrowding had been solved in the largest prison ( Tipitapa ) , and inmates had more facilities for work and recreation and for family visits . |
| 11 | Is the Minister saying that by Christmas every dot and comma of what local authorities need for their computers will be in place ? |
| 12 | It is not quite time to say that by 1914 , ‘ Ideologies of national purpose , often couched in Social Darwinist terms of racial survival , had supplanted earlier religious and moral justifications , though the latter were still very much a part of public rhetoric . ’ |