Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of the arson attack , the head of the Hong Kong Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said that the estimated 100,000 Vietnamese refugees in South-East Asia should be repatriated in order to avoid such tragedies being repeated . |
| 2 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 4 | Sir John Banham , for instance , welcomed my right hon. Friend 's prudent Budget and the priority that he gives to reducing inflation , while the Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent and correct in every way . |
| 5 | Firstly , I think it 's a vote by the majority of parents to say that they want the school to stay local , to stay within Local Authority control . |
| 6 | The great majority of lenders say that they see the courts as an unfruitful last resort , and would prefer to make some special arrangements ( smaller but regular payments , say ) as soon as a customer gets into difficulties . |
| 7 | A number of organisations said that they would ‘ prefer a more flexible system ’ of training as opposed to the ‘ detailed requirements ’ of the Institute 's training office authorisation system . |
| 8 | The Southern California Association of Governments says that the region ’ is buckling under its own weight ’ . |
| 9 | [ … ] Socialization within the family is manifested in subtle cues of things said and things not said , of facial expressions and gestures which arise in the course of day-to-day living within the same dwelling . |
| 10 | but they 've , they 've written anyway and so it 's very difficult to , to think of things to say and erm |
| 11 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 12 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 13 | In a survey by Childcare Vouchers of more than 400 working mothers , 72% of nanny-users said that childcare problems were among the most stressful they had to cope with . |
| 14 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 15 | Self-government for Scotland was given the thumbs-down by the Scottish business community , with more than 60 per cent of respondents saying that it would have a detrimental effect on business , while only 10 per cent thought there would be some advantage . |
| 16 | The National Union of Teachers says that all school appraisal schemes - including existing ones — should be boycotted and local authority schemes supported only if they follow all the recommendations of the steering group . |
| 17 | One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process . |
| 18 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 19 | Well I think I feel a bit ambivalent on this point because and it 's quite possible I was smiling because I 'm thinking of parts of the report where a huge number of women say that they just deal with this on their own terms , and of course they do . |
| 20 | The Opposition believe that we should consider alternatives and the ability of magistrates to say that something must be done with first offenders and that an alternative can work . |
| 21 | The Civil Aviation Authority , which is drawing up safety and environmental guide lines for STOLports say that it sees ‘ no problem in accommodating ’ the docklands plan . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the Court in terms says that a worker who decides not to transfer deprives him- or herself of the protection of the Directive . |
| 23 | ( Press complaints over the handling of news from islands said that despatches were stupidly censored and when journalists headed their stories ‘ censored ’ , the word ‘ censored ’ was censored . ) |
| 24 | So it is not implausible for critics to say that the solid-state detectors are unreliable and somehow bring about a sharp distortion in the spectra . |
| 25 | But the Feynman sum over histories says that particles can take any path through space-time . |
| 26 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 27 | The general election was an opportunity for voters to say that they do care about the future . |
| 28 | Will the Minister confirm that it is now five years since the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized , with tremendous loss of life , and two years since the committee for the research programme into the safety of roll on/roll off ferries said that something should be done about the safety of existing ferries — those built before 1990 ? |
| 29 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 30 | Husameddin offers nothing in the way of specific evidence to support his statement either about Molla Yegan 's resignation or about Molla Fenari 's appointment , however , and is indeed at pains to say that in spite of much research he has been unable to find any signatures of Molla Fenari 's dating from this second kadilik . |