Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will also gather information on why individuals join groups ( in defiance of the free rider prediction that says that collective action is illogical ) . |
| 2 | There is a mathematical theorem that says that any theory that obeys quantum mechanics and relativity must always obey the combined symmetry CPT . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East quoted the experts waste recovery association and said that the first priority should be waste minimisation . |
| 4 | A joyful Lou called Melissa to thank her for her kindness and to say that Rick was now reconciled with his parents . |
| 5 | During talks with former leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe and with leading industrial figures , Zou promised to improve further the domestic environment for foreign investment and said that China 's repayment of its foreign debt was guaranteed , adding that the lifting of martial law on Jan. 11 was a sign of stability . |
| 6 | Amid mounting criticism of the French government 's failure to speak out against the killings , French Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Bernard on Jan. 13 condemned the attacks on the opposition and said that France would only continue to support the government of President Idriss Déby if he pressed ahead with democratization . |
| 7 | Layfield ( 1976 ) criticised this confusion and said that the centre must make up its mind whether it wanted to adopt a centralist or localist view . |
| 8 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |
| 9 | Could you offer her a cup of tea and say that I 'll be er about fifteen minutes or so ? |
| 10 | He remembered waking up in the middle of the night , and then he remembered Miss Tomm walking into the dormitory and saying that the headmaster wanted to see him and Cartwright saying : " Eee , what 's Fleming done ? " |
| 11 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 12 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 14 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 15 | In December the joint forestry committee of Indonesia and Malaysia called for retaliatory action and said that it was " unfair " for Western environmentalists to blame Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) countries for global problems , and said that Indonesia and Malaysia had both taken steps " to sustain forest resources " . |
| 16 | He denounced function as an irrelevance and said that we needed to set up a structure . |
| 17 | A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ . |
| 18 | A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ . |
| 19 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 20 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 21 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 22 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |
| 23 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There is a report on CEEFAX that say that Wilko has been approached by Lazio re : the sale of one fat Geordie ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 27 | The general point is that primary schools might be more imaginative and flexible in their deployment of staff : there is no law that says that there should be one teacher to one class for all of the time , and that this is the best possible arrangement in all circumstances . |
| 28 | There 's no law that says that children should preferably be with their mothers . |
| 29 | There is no law that says that life must be difficult . |
| 30 | but he did I a favour at by bringing out er a law that said that they must provide something like this . |