Example sentences of "[noun sg] said [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 11 the US State Department said that it endorsed the conclusions of the Gershony report and had expressed its concern to the Somali government . |
| 2 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 3 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 4 | The council said that it had deposed the President , abolishing his office , and had suspended parliament pending new elections . |
| 5 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 6 | The jobs that do seem to be safe are those of top management : an official familiar with the agenda for next week 's board meeting said that it does n't include any discussion of personnel changes involving John Akers or any other executive . |
| 7 | Amnesty said that it had evidence of children being detained , either on suspicion of illegal political activities , or with their fathers , some of whom were serving heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup of 1981 [ see pp. 31353-54 ; 31563 ] . |
| 8 | Spike said that it looked like Hunters had attacked the craft . |
| 9 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 11 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 12 | ‘ The Government said that it wanted development work to continue at all pits , not investment , which implies new projects and new money . ’ |
| 13 | Yesterday , the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate said that it had rejected the company 's plan to return Trawsfynydd 's reactor one to operation for six months of tests . |
| 14 | Carried by some freak of the acoustics of the place or by the mist , Jotan 's voice said as it seemed to Alexei in his ear , ‘ If you move or call out , I shall kill you . ’ |
| 15 | Critics of the Tirgu Mures report said that it failed to spell out the reasons for the outburst of hatred between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania , preferring instead to lay the blame on Ceausescu 's legacy , actions of the former Securitate political police , and disinformation on the part of extremists on both sides . |
| 16 | Commenting on the move in an editorial on March 7 , The Hindu said that it marked " the logical culmination of one stage in V.P. Singh 's effort to eliminate corruption in the upper reaches of government and restore the integrity of the decision making process " [ see p. 37184 for initiation in January 1990 of criminal proceedings in Bofors corruption case ] . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 18 | On Nov. 13 the Egyptian Interior Ministry said that it had no evidence to suggest that the guerrillas had entered Israel through Egyptian territory . |
| 19 | The ministry said that it intended to go ahead with the slaughter of the flock ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 20 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 21 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 22 | The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister said that it remained for him to wish his colleagues all good fortune in the difficult but hopeful situation which they had to face . |
| 25 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 26 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |
| 27 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |