Example sentences of "[num] say [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer of a truce followed a statement broadcast on Kabul radio on May 22 saying that the government had accepted the terms of a comprehensive peace settlement set out by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on May 21 . |
| 2 | Reports on Jan. 22 said that the recently privatized Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd and the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan , a development finance organization , were to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by an Islamic court banning bank interest [ see p. 38683-84 ] . |
| 3 | Reports in the Independent of April 2 said that the Iraqi government had used fixed-wing jets in defiance of US ceasefire terms [ see p. 38081 ] and had employed chemical bombs and phosphorous shells to kill " hundreds of thousands " of Kurds . |
| 4 | A report on April 2 said that the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) had undertaken to break the " conspiracy of silence " surrounding the brutal exploitation of foreign workers in Kuwait . |
| 5 | However , Le Monde of July 2 said that the programme " read more as a catalogue of good intentions than an exact timetable for the pursuit of economic reforms " , implying that its approval was timed to coincide with the G-7 meeting [ see p. 38990 ] . |
| 6 | An Iraqi government statement issued on March 30 said that the devices were " merely electrical capacitors , used for many industrial , scientific and technical purposes " . |
| 7 | An International Labour Organization ( ILO ) report of March 30 said that the slump in production would mean that more than 15,000,000 jobs would be lost in the former Soviet Union in 1992 — 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 8 | Mandela on Oct. 12 said that the ANC was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalization if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the country . |
| 9 | A report in the Washington Post of April 10 said that the plan presented by Solomon outlined four distinct phases : ( i ) at the time of the signing of an international agreement on Cambodia the USA and Vietnam would enter into normalization discussions ; the USA would also officially approve visits by US business and veterans ' groups to Vietnam ; ( ii ) with the establishment of a US transitional presence in Cambodia , the US would partially lift its trade embargo against Vietnam and Cambodia ; the second phase would also require increased accounting for US MIAs ; ( iii ) the third phase would begin after the UN process in Cambodia had lasted at least six months and would include the establishment of US and Vietnamese diplomatic offices in Hanoi and Washington respectively , a full lifting of the US trade embargo against Vietnam and an easing of US opposition to international bank lending to Vietnam ; the third phase would also involve further substantial progress in accounting for US MIAs ; ( iv ) the final phase would follow UN-supervised elections in Cambodia and would include full normalization of US diplomatic and economic relations with Vietnam and Cambodia as well as support for international bank lending . |
| 10 | An article in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 10 said that the visit was partly to balance an early December visit to Taiwan by US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills [ see this page ] . |
| 11 | A report in the Guardian of Nov. 7 said that a ban by NATO countries ( which dominated COCOM ) on exporting " secret " high technology to communist countries had cost the UK telecommunications company British Telecom a £4,200,000 ( US$7,100,000 ) order to supply optical fibre equipment for a new telephone link in Vietnam . |
| 12 | A final communiqué issued on June 7 said that a European " defence role , reflected in the strengthening of the European pillar within the Alliance , will reinforce the integrity and effectiveness of the Atlantic Alliance " . |
| 13 | Reports on Aug. 7 said that the government had airlifted hundreds of Palestinians , expected to total 3,000 by mid-August , to Jordan [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] ] . |
| 14 | A separate statement issued by Germany on July 7 said that the summit had deplored the continued fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh ; condemned non-compliance by Iraq with UN Gulf war resolutions ; and urged the resumption of negotiations in South Africa . |
| 15 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting on Dec. 7 said that the EEA should go ahead without Switzerland , while expressing regret over the outcome of the Swiss referendum . |
| 16 | However , Professor John Gunn , who chaired the working party which recommended the construction of Nina in 1960 said that the delay was inevitable because of the financial constraints at the time . |
| 17 | A Vietnam News Agency report on May 21 said that the joint team had investigated " 11 reports on sightings of live Americans " in various cities and provinces . |
| 18 | A Radio France Internationale report on Dec. 31 said that a total of 26 plotters had been executed by firing squad . |
| 19 | A statement by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Feb. 5 said that the recent trials of Tiananmen dissidents fell " far short of international standards " . |
| 20 | Channel 4 said that the word was used to describe that part of the body rather than gratuitously to offend … |
| 21 | A statement issued at the close of an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC , comprising Iraq , Egypt , Jordan and North Yemen ) in Amman on April 4 said that the national security of Iraq was " a basic part of pan-Arab security " , and that the ACC countries and the Arab nation were duty-bound to support Iraq against any aggression or threat to which that country might be exposed . |
| 22 | The Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 17 said that the war " imposed " on the " fraternal Iraqi people " had been " forcefully rejected " , and the largest of all the protest demonstrations took place in Algiers , where a march organized by the fundamentalist Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) on Feb. 1 reportedly involved 400,000 people . |
| 23 | Reports on Oct. 18 said that the German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg had assured ministers that the new corps did not signify a " questioning of NATO 's central role " , but that both UK and Netherlands officials had expressed concern . |
| 24 | A government press note issued on Jan. 11 said that the riots had been sparked off by inmates demanding " the release of all prisoners following the liberation of the country from autocratic rule " . |
| 25 | However , a report of July 29 said that the Armenian delegation was returning to Rome . |
| 26 | A report on Tehran radio on March 6 said that the new security pact would " hurt the interests of all the countries in the region " [ see also p. 38119 ] . |
| 27 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 28 | I remind her that the Labour Government 's White Paper of 1977 said that the upsurge in the subsidy in the early years of that decade had been accompanied by sharp cuts in investment . |
| 29 | Lord Diplock in Treacy v DPP [ 1971 ] AC 537 said that the Act was " expressed in simple language as used and understood by ordinary literate men and women " . |
| 30 | A report in the Guardian of April 25 said that no aid sent to the north of Sudan was now reaching the southern provinces , where the only government presence was in garrison towns such as Juba , 125 km north of the border with Uganda . |