Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] saying [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this year , however , the state minister for primary industries , Dr Kang Yaik , had been reported as saying that there had been a " phenomenal " increase in production and that there was no need to for reductions because " exploitation is carried out very properly on a sustainable yield basis " . |
| 2 | Now detectives in the Irish Republic are reported as saying that members of the gang that kidnapped Nairac , have offered to help them find his body in return for immunity from prosecution . |
| 3 | It might be interpreted as saying that V has a mode of access to his own brain different from any modes of access to V 's brain available to BS ; or that V has a different mode of access to the external world , and that this constitutes the difference between him and BS . |
| 4 | This may be manipulated by subtracting the riskless rate from both sides and dividing the result by the standard deviation of the portfolio 's returns to obtain , This may be interpreted as saying that , in equilibrium , the ex-post risk premiums per unit of risk on well-diversified portfolios should be the same as the risk premium per unit of risk for the market portfolio . |
| 5 | With only a degree of oversimplification , his general conclusion can be summarised as saying that whatever is happening in the built environment will eventually be resolved to the benefit of the undifferentiated interests of capital in general , even if that resolution generates further problems that have to be resolved in turn . |
| 6 | In other words , it could be taken as saying that God 's presence is universal and complete , ours is partial and incomplete . |
| 7 | Some of those who took part in Ket 's Rebellion in Norfolk in 1549 were reported as saying that " gentlemen have ruled aforetime , and they ( the commons , that is ) will rule now . " |
| 8 | Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure . |
| 9 | Members of the Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) , led by Rachid Ghanouchi , were reported as saying that they had not put up candidates because of the government 's continued refusal officially to recognise the party . |
| 10 | On March 31 , Sierra Leonean commanders were reported as saying that 2,150 men of the 3,000-strong national army had occupied part of Lofa County in Liberia . |
| 11 | European observers were reported as saying that they had witnessed no serious problems during voting but did not comment on the claim of fraud after the close of stations . |
| 12 | On Oct. 1 Russian observers who had arrived in Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on Sept. 28 to monitor the ceasefire , were reported as saying that in Kazakh district there were no hostilities and that they were to move on to Kubatlin district next day . |
| 13 | A few people got terribly carried away , leaping up to voice their guilt at John being kidnapped and saying that it should have been them . |
| 14 | Opposition sources were cited as saying that the Vice-President , Ali Salem al-Bid , was in seclusion , having effectively resigned . |
| 15 | The United States government expressed reservations , US diplomatic sources being quoted as saying that Onusal would be a check on the government and not the FMLN . |
| 16 | Colleagues were quoted as saying that Heber was rarely seen on campus . |
| 17 | Unnamed friends of the prince were quoted as saying that he would never be involved in a slanging match with Diana . |
| 18 | UN officials were quoted as saying that the Sudanese government had allowed the international relief operation to be recommenced following pressure from donor governments . |
| 19 | By late June , however , close political aides of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto were quoted as saying that the party was willing to co-operate with the army in putting an end to a " reign of terror " by its political rival , the Sind-based Mohajir Qaumi Mahaz ( MQM ) . |
| 20 | Hong Kong officials were quoted as saying that none of the deportees , the first to be sent back since Patten 's arrival , had offered resistance . |
| 21 | Chief executive , Tim Cordy , is reported as saying that the enforced break up of the Council meant that there was no longer a " national voice for nature " . |
| 22 | A colleague of Dr Maden 's is quoted as saying that nothing was done because ‘ nothing really terrible had happened … |
| 23 | A representative from the Ricardo Group , a UK based engineering consultancy , is quoted as saying that the new regulations represented " one of the greatest challenges facing the truck industry " . |
| 24 | A director of the Land and Timber Services , Dr Alastair Frazer , is quoted as saying that : " getting some return of their debt from sustainable forestry is better than getting no return at all " . |
| 25 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 27 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 28 | The current Prince of Wales has been quoted as saying that ‘ something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes … after all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it ’ ( quoted in Rose , 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 29 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 30 | On June 11 Zaki had been quoted as saying that Pakistan " feels vulnerable " to India 's long-range missiles . |