Example sentences of "say [that] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some say that gleams of a remoter world |
| 2 | Guidelines from the Department of Health say that 85% of the social security element of the funding transfer should be spent on residential care for elderly people with a further 5% on their day care . |
| 3 | Some say that ignorance of the law is no excuse , since any man can say that he did not know , and gain exception thereby . |
| 4 | They say that typhoons on the South China Seas are the worst , lifting and cracking the backs of freighters like discarded toys . |
| 5 | Some observers say that charging on the basis of hours is too simple a method to be used exclusively in the increasingly complex business of auditing . |
| 6 | Two Californian importers have already ordered 800 Wisdom systems by February 1992 and say that orders for the following year could be 10 times greater . |
| 7 | Commission officials say that implementation of the banking directive can not be delayed until the others too are ready to go into effect . |
| 8 | The CBI does not even go this far : Sir Michael Angus , its president , says that compliance with the code should not be a listing requirement because of excessive bureaucracy . |
| 9 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
| 10 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 11 | Hall says that mutations in the genetic code of some bacteria occur more often when they are useful than when they are not . |
| 12 | A recent United Nations report says that 90% of the adult population are literate . |
| 13 | Even though ‘ OSF/1 is a strange strategy , ’ IDC says that users at the top-end of the market are less interested in what operating system their boxes run than what the machine can do . |
| 14 | Louis Nauges , a commentator on the electronics industry , says that Europe as a whole is ten years behind the US in using automation in the office . |
| 15 | Now it says that groups like the British National Party hope to feed on the ultra-nationalist rhetoric of the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and the rise of neo-Nazism amidst the mass unemployment and economic hardships of eastern Germany . |
| 16 | The IITP says that interest in the exam has been ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 17 | Gennery says that information on the dangers were ‘ verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 ’ . |
| 18 | The report , The Lost Land , says that Department of the Environment ( DoE ) statistics have failed to record the loss of 690 square miles of countryside , an area larger than Greater London , since the second world war . |
| 19 | Daly , in a reduction of culture to biology which recalls Dawkins , says that relations between the sexes are ‘ subject to evolutionary change ’ ( 1970 : 145 ) . |
| 20 | The International Atomic Energy Agency 's marine environment laboratory says that parts of the Gulf are cleaner than they were before the war , although there are still heavily contaminated spots . |
| 21 | He says that staff at the DSS count the aid trip as a holiday , and wo n't pay him while he 's out of the country . |
| 22 | Florence further says that witnesses of the agreement later declared that Edmund left no portion of the kingdom to his brothers should he die , and agreed that Cnut should be the protector of his sons until they came of age . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp says that sales of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade topped 3m copies in April , the first month after it began shipping the product , bettering the previous record set by MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 upgrades combined ; sales of the upgrade were still supply-constrained , resulting in a backlog . |
| 24 | They become schooled in that illogical negativism sometimes known as Logical Positivism , which says that statements about the world are either provable by observation or are capable of being deduced from facts supplied by reason or logic . |
| 25 | Gandalf Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Ontario has signed a letter of intent to sell the majority of its shares in Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc to Geotek Industries Inc : the Canadian communications equipment supplier will retain a minority interest in the company , which today represents 3% of its revenue ; Gandalf also says that revenues for the fourth quarter ended Aprch 31 , 1993 were slightly below expectations and a modest loss is expected for the period — strong business in the UK were moderated by a weakening of sterling against the US dollar in the fourth quarter and lower than expected revenues in continental Europe and in other international markets also hit the figures . |
| 26 | The code says that consultation with a solicitor can be in person , in writing or by telephone . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said that rules in the last two categories ‘ lack the force of law ’ , that is , they are not enforceable in a court . |
| 28 | Someone had said that admission into the hall was by ticket only . |
| 29 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 30 | The difference between the evangelicals and the others is so great that it can almost be said that growth in the diocese as a whole is restricted to evangelical parishes . |