Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] say [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , the Financial Times reported West German officials as saying that the recent trade liberalization moves by the USA did not go far enough . |
| 2 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 3 | When the relevant Finance Act was being discussed in 1976 , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , referred to teachers ' children educated at fee-paying schools and said that the benefit would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed ’ . |
| 4 | We may adopt another Maoist metaphor and say that the next revolution will be like a straw sandal made in his home province of Hunan . |
| 5 | A I would make an educated guess and say that the ‘ fungus ’ growing on the bogwood is the result of decaying food . |
| 6 | He promised , however , that there would be a full investigation and said that the results would be made public . |
| 7 | He had been quoted in the Jerusalem Post at the start of a visit by a Green delegation as saying that the Iraqi Scud attacks on Israel were the logical consequence of Israel 's policy towards its neighbours . |
| 8 | Seminar participants accused international journals of attracting all the best papers from Indian authors and said that the resulting ‘ paper drain ’ ( besides the brain drain , of course ) deprives Indian medical journals of material that is rightfully theirs . |
| 9 | The final communiqué condemned terrorism and said that the rise of religious fundamentalism constituted a threat to society and democracy . |