Example sentences of "quote as [v-ing] that [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ’ Despite this clear statement of their findings , this paper is widely quoted as showing that there is no link between colic and maternal diet . |
2 | A colleague of Dr Maden 's is quoted as saying that nothing was done because ‘ nothing really terrible had happened … |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | The CNI itself had nominally been disbanded in March 1990 , but the Defence Minister was quoted as saying that it was preferable to keep former CNI agents " in the establishment than in the street " . |
5 | Afterwards Cheney was quoted as saying that it would be " appropriate " for a US general to continue to be supreme commander of NATO forces . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
8 | The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths , contrary to media reports . |
9 | Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Three countries ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) met at Zruby in Slovakia on Sept. 25 , when Imrich Andrejcak of Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying that there were no plans for the three countries to sign a military pact or form a military union . |
10 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
11 | Robert Malpas , chairman of the privatised power company Powergen , was quoted as saying that he would like to ‘ get away ’ with fitting FGD at just one of his power stations . |
12 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
13 | Unnamed friends of the prince were quoted as saying that he would never be involved in a slanging match with Diana . |
14 | Gorbachev , arriving in Ottawa ( Canada ) on May 29 for an official visit , was quoted as saying that he was " somewhat worried " by Yeltsin 's victory . |
15 | Pérez de Cuéllar was quoted as saying that he welcomed the decision of the government to undertake reforms . |
16 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
17 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
18 | On May 27 , Rafsanjani was quoted as saying that he would resist all attempts to " sabotage " his government . |
19 | On May 7 Wörner was quoted as saying that he strongly favoured a " European pillar " within NATO and that the WEU would be an appropriate institution to embody it . |
20 | Bush himself was quoted as saying that he did not " want to get into a major harangue down there " . |