Example sentences of "quote [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 2 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and HP had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware-and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 3 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and Hewlett had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware- and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 4 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 5 | On Sept. 4 a government source was quoted as announcing that two members of the presidential guard had been charged with Boudiaf 's assassination . |
| 6 | ’ Despite this clear statement of their findings , this paper is widely quoted as showing that there is no link between colic and maternal diet . |
| 7 | Since a process of comparing each letter in turn with the other letters of the stimulus set would lead to reaction time increasing with set size this result has been quoted as showing that the left hemisphere operates in a serial manner . |
| 8 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 9 | The foreman was quoted as saying that the woman in question had shown ‘ everything she had ’ . |
| 10 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
| 11 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 12 | The FDA was quoted as saying that the asthma drug Intal , which accounts for about half of Fisons ' pharmaceutical sales , was still on sale despite ‘ violations ’ only because of its medical necessity . |
| 13 | Robert Malpas , chairman of the privatised power company Powergen , was quoted as saying that he would like to ‘ get away ’ with fitting FGD at just one of his power stations . |
| 14 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 15 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 16 | A senior official in the Zambian Ministry of Planning was recently quoted as saying that development aid has to be spent more on sustaining than developing . |
| 17 | Colleagues were quoted as saying that Heber was rarely seen on campus . |
| 18 | She apparently told her sometime lover , Marlon Brando , ‘ I do n't know if I do it right ’ and Norman Mailer , another to enjoy her favours , was quoted as saying that the screen goddess was ‘ pleasant in bed , but receptive rather than innovative ’ . |
| 19 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 20 | Watergate co-star John Ehrlichman was quoted as saying that Nixon got ‘ pie-eyed ’ at least once . |
| 21 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 22 | A solicitor from Wellington in New Zealand was quoted as saying that Ofahengaue had agreed to terms and was 99 per cent sure the forward would sign a three-year deal worth $800,000 . |
| 23 | The PR dangers were summed up early on when one analyst was quoted as saying that the bid was akin ‘ to mugging an old age pensioner ’ . |
| 24 | The PR dangers were summed up early on when one analyst was quoted as saying that TI 's bid for Dowty was akin to ‘ mugging an old age pensioner ’ |
| 25 | Unnamed friends of the prince were quoted as saying that he would never be involved in a slanging match with Diana . |
| 26 | Earlier Wittgenstein was quoted as saying that psychological verbs are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not . ’ |
| 27 | The publicity spoke of there being no lesson in the film : Bogart was quoted as saying that ‘ if there is one thing that has no place in theatrical show it is an attempt to preach ’ , but no member of the audience could miss the point of this film . |
| 28 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 29 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 30 | The current Prince of Wales has been quoted as saying that ‘ something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes … after all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it ’ ( quoted in Rose , 1985 : 75 ) . |