Example sentences of "say that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm I must admit I 'm , I 'm interes be interesting to see the outcome , you know when audit commission and O F S T E D say that thirty percent of people who enter further and higher education fail . |
| 2 | Well , Department of Transport erm say that five cuts per year is enough and , and er we , we do seven cuts which is a little bit better than that . |
| 3 | When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power . |
| 4 | The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings . |
| 5 | Some criticise aspects of his theories , for example that the first 5 years of childhood are all important and say that all years of childhood are vitally important . |
| 6 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 7 | In the PIMS book , Buzzell and Gale ( 1987 ) say that this measure of performance was highly correlated with five-year averages for accounting ROIs . |
| 8 | I say that this type of equipment is necessary because until we can be sure all major rockets and missiles have gone , there will always be a chance of such offensive capabilities ‘ falling into the wrong hands ’ and that may result in terrible consequences . |
| 9 | But others say that this definition of rape will undermine the progress made so far in getting the courts to take rape seriously . |
| 10 | They say that fair elections in Punjab and Assam are impossible — and so the outcome will be decided by bullets , not ballots . |
| 11 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 12 | If it were abolished , that would have the blessing , as far as I am aware , of every local authority association , the Institute of Revenues , Ratings and Valuation , and the Child Poverty Action Group , the very strong blessing of the citizens advice bureaux — and the enormously authorititative support of the Audit Commission , which , in its report , had this to say on the subject : ’ Local authorities say that large numbers of income support recipients are in arrears with community charge payments for 1990/91 . |
| 13 | General Motors Corp may need to sell a stake in Electronic Data Systems Corp in order to overcome a $14,000m worldwide pension obligation , industry analysts told Reuter : chief financial officer Richard Wagoner said the automaker plans to make a ‘ significant contribution ’ into its pension fund this year and next year , and over the next six or seven years , hopes to eliminate its pension fund liability completely ; analysts say it could raise almost $5,000m by selling a 25% stake in the computer services giant , and Lehman Brothers automotive analyst Joseph Phillippi said he expects it either to sell a stake or return to the equity markets ; officials from both the General and British Telecommunications Plc say that any deal for the UK phone giant to buy a stake in EDS is far from certain . |
| 14 | She says that fifty percent of her trade is from passing traffic . |
| 15 | He says that certain morphine like substances are released from the brain during acupuncture . |
| 16 | Daewoo Research Institute , a private think-tank , says that pre-tax profits for the 350 companies it analyses may jump by 14.3% in 1993 and 26.4% in 1994 . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman says that all parts of the House take that view . |
| 18 | Similarly , Goscelin says that one Easter at Winchester Cnut refused to wear his crown and put it on a crucifix , with the explanation that the king of kings was more worthy of it than he . |
| 19 | She says that one reason for her not going out is that upstairs there are about one thousand people assaulting children . |
| 20 | Later , in a chapter entitled ‘ The Application of Paint ’ it says that recent books on decoration have ‘ done more to debase the traditional approach to decoration than to further an appreciation of its subtleties ’ . |
| 21 | It says that 340,000 people with two jobs are being double counted , and there is a discrepancy of one million between the numbers claimed to be in self-employment and those self-employed people paying national insurance . |
| 22 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 23 | Mr Rifkind says that many people in industry are telling him they would ‘ switch to rail tomorrow ’ if they knew British Rail was reliable . |
| 24 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 25 | My my estimate says that each copy of this cost in excess of two pounds fifty . |
| 26 | He also says that transitional arrangements for federation could undermine the international recognition of the Greek Cypriot south . |
| 27 | Joan Hamer says that married women with children have ‘ had their careers ’ . |
| 28 | It says that other owner of PWRs are learning a lot about reactor safety as the clean-up continues . |
| 29 | The Association , which represents small regional airlines , says that discouraging people from using internal air travel would be counter-productive , because most travellers would go by road instead . |
| 30 | The department 's radio-ecologist , Charles Osterberg , says that radioactive isotopes of strontium , caesium and iodine now leaking near US coasts are virtually lost amid the vast quantities of their stable counterparts in the ocean waters . |