Example sentences of "saying [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 2 | The defendant agreed , and prepared a list of goods to the value of £7,950 which he submitted to the manager , Mr. Gilberd , saying that it represented a genuine order by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods in return for a building society cheque in that sum . |
| 3 | The non-profit Open Software Foundation in Cambridge , Massachusetts has been quoted in the US press as saying that it shipped a total of 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 4 | Saying that it suffered a sudden drop in demand during last year 's third quarter , an upsurge in the normally strong fourth quarter , and another significant decline in early 1993 , Amdahl Corp last week announced a big new round of cuts , saying that 1,100 jobs , 12.9% of its worldwide workforce , must go in response to current market conditions . |
| 5 | Saying that it suffered a sudden drop in demand during last year 's third quarter , an upsurge in the normally strong fourth quarter , and another significant decline in early 1993 , Amdahl Corp yesterday announced a big new round of cuts , saying that 1,100 jobs , 12.9% of its worldwide workforce , must go in response to current market conditions . |
| 6 | Hence ( vi ) to say , as Wittgenstein does , that the first person utterance is not verified by observation is tantamount to saying that it has no truth-value . |
| 7 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 8 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp used Comdex as a springboard to announce the formation of a Consumer Products Group to focus on developing consumer products for the home , small business and personal productivity markets , saying that it sees a $1,500m market in 1996 , up from just $430m or so in 1991 . |
| 9 | On May 23 the head of the Soviet delegation at the Disarmament Conference welcomed Bush 's offer , saying that it opened the way for the Conference to reach agreement on a comprehensive chemical weapons ban before 1992 . |