Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] say that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many grammar books you will find a rule which says that the subject AGREES WITH the verb . |
| 2 | Plans by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) to assist the clean up of environmental black spots in former communist countries are being impeded by a rule which says that the Bank can not lend more than 40 per cent of its funds to finance state projects . |
| 3 | But suppose there is a rule which says that the effectiveness of a synapse decreases whenever it causes the post-synaptic cell to fire . |
| 4 | Freud himself said that the poets , not he , discovered the unconscious . |
| 5 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 6 | His motive was probably connected with the part of the text which says that the estates of Christ Church and other Kentish churches are henceforth to be free of all secular service and royal debt . |
| 7 | Could I please draw attention er you already chairman have , but it 's important from where I stand to draw attention to the words of the second criterion of the P P G. Which says that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities . |
| 8 | The measures , including the abolition of petroleum revenue tax , on new oil and gas projects has been welcomed by British Petroleum which said that the changes should encourage investment in large fields , such as its recent find west of Shetland . |
| 9 | The action came despite bitter opposition from hardline conservatives who said that the treaty favoured the USA and amounted to a present on " a silver platter " for the US president-elect Bill Clinton . |
| 10 | But the scheme 's been critisised by commuters who say that the cost of compensation may put prices up . |
| 11 | Under such circumstances we say that the head encapsulates the meaning of the dependent item . |
| 12 | In a sermon he said that the Slovaks had often " had to struggle just to survive " , and he praised the people 's strength in resisting " traps " laid for their ethnic identity . |
| 13 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 14 | The surveyor 's price had been £10,000 , but the tenant later found two more surveyors who said that the price should be much lower , £3,500 and £1,250 respectively . |
| 15 | On the evening of 14 July he was flicking through the London Evening News when he spotted an article which said that the ban on commercial flights between Britain and the rest of Europe had been lifted . |
| 16 | After all it was suggested er by er Michael Howard in who was Corporate Affairs Minister in nineteen eighty-six in , in the House of Commons he said that the Government believe that members of a pension scheme are in effect investors in that scheme and that that they deserve the protection of the Bill will extend to investors and it never did . |
| 17 | The ā gri took his mastiff mongrel together with a parcel of rice for the dhāmi : when he returned in the evening he said that the dog was no longer afflicted . |
| 18 | The argument is then reinforced by reference to studies which say that the Japanese rarely use the concepts of NPV or the internal rate of return ( Tsurumi and Tsurumi , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |
| 20 | This contrasts with a later theory which says that the split took place much earlier , say in the earliest Jurassic , if the two sub-orders did not evolve separately from primitive ornithischian stock . |
| 21 | Sadly , there are many people who say that the Children 's Address is what speaks to them , rather than other parts of a Protestant service . |
| 22 | Nothing in the Queen 's Speech can offer better prospects It says that the Government will promote training , but they have cut it . |
| 23 | The parties accepted that the court was entitled to decide matters of construction because , as well as the clause in their agreement providing for expert determination , there was also a clause which said that the agreement was to be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and that the parties submitted to the jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 24 | One solution is a clause which says that the question of categorising disputes in contracts where there are two different modes of dispute resolution is itself to be referred to the expert for final decision . |
| 25 | The Acts include a general clause which says that the corporation should keep proper accounting records and should present its accounts in a form laid down by the relevant Secretary of State . |
| 26 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 27 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 28 | ‘ . Yours is a common-sense interpretation which says that the company is entitled to the exemptions but that it chooses not to use them . |
| 29 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
| 30 | As part of the er western relief road you said that the A sixty one north of Killinghall has in fact a very poor accident record . |