Example sentences of "[conj] say [that] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many hoteliers get upset because successive governments appear to ignore the industry 's needs and say that it can look after itself , he regards that as a compliment . |
| 2 | per annum in West Yorkshire , how can a Minister stand in the House and say that it will keep West Yorkshire 154 police officers under strength this year and next year ? |
| 3 | A few people got terribly carried away , leaping up to voice their guilt at John being kidnapped and saying that it should have been them . |
| 4 | However , in view of their long-standing relationship the bank was prepared to take a chance and said that it would lend Tack 40% of the purchase price . |
| 5 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 6 | Iran 's Supreme National Security Council ( SNSC ) on Sept. 21 expressed concern over the pact and said that it would seek " explanations from Kuwait on the contents of the agreement " . |
| 7 | He acknowledged the government 's awareness of the adverse social effects of the devaluation and said that it would take measures to alleviate them , including increasing wages in 1993 and compensating government employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the economic changes . |
| 8 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 9 | When the guard learned what had happened , he simply laughed and said that it must have been old Humphrey . |
| 10 | On Feb. 21 Health Secretary Alberto Mazza denied that the government would close the border with Bolivia but said that it would prevent the entry of illegal immigrants in order to stem the spread of the disease . |
| 11 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |