Example sentences of "the [noun pl] say [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 2 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 3 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 4 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 5 | The contracts typically say that the decision of the expert is to be final and binding , and that is what the courts say it has to be , in the absence of fraud , partiality or mistake . |
| 6 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 7 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 8 | The gypsies say they need a site for up to 40 caravans but there is continuing opposition to such a plan . |
| 9 | The promoters say they hope that if the event becomes an annual festival , prices may then come down . |
| 10 | Despite a strong turnout of punters from Ireland , even the pubs say they had to work harder to take money . |
| 11 | The parents say they 've not been told anything official by the Faithful Foundation . |
| 12 | The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job . |
| 13 | The rebels say they have captured 30,000 of the government 's men . |
| 14 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 15 | The owners say they need more cash for essential repairs . |
| 16 | But the campaigners say they want to see even more promotion of non-alcoholic drinks for drivers . |
| 17 | The organisers say they hope to cater for all tastes at The Belfry , and they 're certainly trying their best . |
| 18 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 19 | But the families say they have still not been told anything by the health authority . |
| 20 | The firms say it protects farmworkers and the public from dangerous pesticides . |
| 21 | The protesters say they want to know more about the process , and that it 's a mistake for the government to legalize irradiation without proper research . |
| 22 | The sisters say they do n't blame their landlady for evicting them . |
| 23 | The locals say they believe he was a swine thief , but it all seemed a bit serious to represent merely the chase and capture of a robber who stole pigs belonging to the monks of Jervaulx Abbey . |
| 24 | What the DECies say they have is a 150MHz chip with a large enough heat sink ( palm-sized ) that it does n't need a fan to dissipate Alpha 's heat . |
| 25 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 26 | Whatever the critics say it seems a lot of people will be picking up a copy just to see what might have happened to the De Winters . |
| 27 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 28 | The scientists say they consider paclitaxel is too complicated to synthesise completely artificially and are experimenting with English yew leaf clippings . |
| 29 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 30 | The travellers say they 've already started a clean-up operation and when they do go , nobody will ever know they were there . |