Example sentences of "[num] [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 2 | Hopes of securing the release of Western hostages with the help of Iranian mediation resurfaced after Rafsanjani was quoted on Sept. 12 as saying that Iran would " do whatever is possible " to help Pérez de Cuéllar negotiate an end to the hostage crisis . |
| 3 | Officials from the fifth chemical weapons inspection team [ see p. 38548 ] , which completed its mission on Nov. 5 , were reported on Nov. 12 as saying that they had found Scud missiles fitted with crudely made chemical warheads . |
| 4 | The seventh IAEA inspection team arrived in Baghdad on Oct. 11 , led by Demetrios Perricos , who was quoted in Baghdad on Oct. 22 as saying that the government had , for the first time , admitted research into nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | A French government spokesman was quoted on Sept. 30 as saying that France would not agree to supply any rocket technology unless India signed the Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) ; in May the USA had accused India of violating the MCTR agreement [ see pp. 38914 ; 39053 ] . |
| 6 | The " clarification " followed a statement by Maurizio Zifferero , deputy Director-General of the IAEA and leader of the 14th nuclear inspection team [ for 13th nuclear inspection team see p. 39026 ] , who was quoted in Baghdad on Sept. 2 as saying that Iraq 's nuclear programme stood at " zero " following repeated UN inspections and allied bombing during the Gulf war . |
| 7 | N'Zau Puna contacted the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London on March 10 and said that he and Fernandes had left UNITA because of " mistakes and irregularities at the heart of the organization " . |
| 8 | The Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh was quoted by Tehran Radio on Aug. 10 as saying that German and Italian banks had agreed to lend Iran US$856 million to help finance petrochemical projects . |
| 9 | Pakistani Foreign Affairs Secretary Shahryar Khan was quoted by the Washington Post of Feb. 7 as saying that Pakistan had the components and expertise to assemble at least one nuclear explosive device . |
| 10 | As the 2,700 delegates to the 10-month-old national conference continued their debates on the organization of a transition to a pluralist political system , the chairman , the Most Rev. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya , the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kisangani , was quoted on June 7 as saying that everything would be ready for the establishment of a transitional government by the end of July . |
| 11 | A White House spokesman was quoted on July 21 as saying that the current stand-off between Iraq and the UN was " about as serious as any we have faced " . |
| 12 | Two Californian importers have already ordered 800 Wisdom systems by February 1992 and say that orders for the following year could be 10 times greater . |
| 13 | He called the council tax the poll tax mark II and said that the new tax was to be bulldozed through the House . |
| 14 | Security officials were cited on Nov. 17 as saying that documents seized suggested a campaign against the lucrative tourist industry [ see p. 39168 ] involving personalities linked to the assassination in 1981 of President Anwar Sadat . |
| 15 | An official source was quoted on Jan. 18 as saying that Saddam Hussein alone bore " the full responsibility for all his actions and what may result from such actions " . |
| 16 | Iranian diplomats denied any rivalry , but a Turkish diplomat was quoted by the Independent of Feb. 18 as saying that the Iranians were " clearly wanting to appear as leading " and that this was " the source of some irritation " in Turkey . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 19 | No formal time limit appeared to have been set on the US military presence , although Bush was reported on Dec. 4 as saying that he wanted the troops out by Jan. 20 , 1993 , when he was due to leave office . |
| 20 | However , reports of a more conciliatory stance appeared to be a confirmed after the Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was quoted in the official daily al Thawrah on Oct. 5 as saying that Iraq had not " objected to the idea of selling oil to meet the necessary humanitarian and civilian needs and has not objected to the Security Council 's resolution to deduct a high percentage " of " the so-called reparations fund and UN costs " . |
| 21 | The view that the Iraqi government was willing to resume negotiations on UN-supervised oil sales ( reported in September — see p. 39115 ) was supported by China 's permanent representative at the UN Li Daoyu who , referring to the resolution , was quoted on Oct. 3 as saying that such " extraordinary measures " were unnecessary in the light of Iraq 's readiness to re-open negotiations . |
| 22 | The Commonwealth Secretary-General , Chief Emeka Anyaoku , was quoted on April 6 as saying that the South African government 's promises would have to be turned into concrete action before economic sanctions against South Africa could be lifted . |
| 23 | When the 10-year defence agreement was initialled on Sept. 4 , a US Defence Department spokesman was quoted in the Washington Post of Sept. 6 as saying that it did " not in any way open the door for permanent military bases in Kuwait " . |
| 24 | Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was quoted on Sept. 29 as saying that while " the West and a number of other countries insisted on the exclusion of Yugoslavia from the UN , we did not share this view " . |
| 25 | Ivan Boiko , was cited in Rossiiskaya gazeta of Oct. 29 as saying that the Directorate had been established at Yeltsin 's suggestion . |
| 26 | Human rights activists in Cameroon were quoted on April 25 as saying that up to 48 people had been killed in demonstrations and that 58 detained students might also have died . |
| 27 | It assigned a doubleA-minus rating to the company 's $100m 5.75% senior unsecured notes due May 1 2000 and said that the ratings reflect the company 's improving cost structure and regulatory flexibility authorised in most of its jurisdictions . |
| 28 | The Government 's announcement suggested a possible date beyond 2000 and said that it could be delayed up to 2005 . |
| 29 | Responding to the imposition of martial law , Ahmed al-Khatib , a leading dissident politician and former National Assembly deputy , was quoted on Feb. 27 as saying that " the Sabah family do n't want to share power " . |
| 30 | A Jordanian official speaking on behalf of the Jordanian delegation , Maruan Muasher , was quoted in El País of Oct. 27 as saying that Jordan would be willing to contemplate a federation with an independent Palestinian state . |