Example sentences of "[noun sg] said that there " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton , South-West said that there were three guillotines between 1945 and 1951 and 13 in 1988 . |
| 2 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 3 | But the Labour Co-ordinating Committee said that there was clear evidence of a cultural change . |
| 4 | Originally , the Government and British Rail management said that there was no need for a dedicated rail route from the channel ports , and that we could manage with the existing railway infrastructure . |
| 5 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 6 | The judge said that there was insufficient evidence to convict König on the charge of participating in the murders of 1,076 others . |
| 7 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 8 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 9 | There was no evidence that the defendants were aware of the existence of those whom their conduct offended , although the court said that there was evidence from which the magistrates were entitled to infer that the appellants ‘ must have known that other people would be likely to be present . ’ |
| 10 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman said that there was not enough consumer representation . |
| 12 | A Department of Energy spokesman last night said that there were ‘ no plans to restructure the offer ’ . |
| 13 | They the petition said that there is no difference between rape and date rape . |
| 14 | Add to this our initial difficulty in knowing what to recommend , when the very same paper said that there was no such folic acid supplement to give . |
| 15 | Although the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees put the number of Liberian refugees at 80,000 , the government said that there were at least 200,000 [ see also pp. 37174 ; 37644 ] . |
| 16 | The trades union confederations demanded a forum for dialogue on the issue with the government , whereas the government said that there had already been consultations and that it could not " be expected to cease adopting decisions on crucial and pressing problems because of artificially created procedural obstacles " . |
| 17 | On this point THE HOME SECRETARY said that there was no reliable evidence that the abolition of the death penalty in foreign countries had been followed by a significant increase in the number of murders . |
| 18 | When asked about a timeframe for these auctions , the spokesman said that there was ‘ no hurry ’ but that he expected the aircraft to have gone to its new home by Christmas . |
| 19 | An Agriculture Ministry spokesman said that there would be no change in policy . |
| 20 | But a spokesman said that there was no intention to mislead customers . |
| 21 | A BP spokesman said that there had been a minor leak in the gas lift module which had been isolated . |
| 22 | The headmaster said that there had been no problems until the introduction of television . |
| 23 | The official ATA news agency said that there was no evidence of deception or abuse . |
| 24 | A joint statement said that there had been no " comprehensive accommodation in relation to the deep-seated and longstanding problems " . |
| 25 | This report said that there should be no pay-TV programmes . |
| 26 | A representative of the licencing board said that there 's widespread support in Glasgow for the proposal . |
| 27 | Mr. McAllion : The Minister said that there will be only one form of financial assistance per company , in the form of the £48,750 to help people to put together a bid in the first place . |
| 28 | The Minister said that there were four options , but did not tell us which one the Government had decided to implement . |
| 29 | Ninety per cent of respondents to the 1989 RSC survey said that there were no childcare facilities at their place of work . |
| 30 | When the imagined objector said that there was no reason to pay the money now due as tax before the tax law was passed he was of course right . |