Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [conj] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges . |
| 3 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Iran-based opposition groups were quoted on Sept. 7 as claiming that up to 2,000 people in the south had recently been arrested for " anti-government activities " . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Malcolm Toon , a special US envoy inquiring into US prisoners of war still held in the former Soviet Union , was quoted on July 1 as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate the claims made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in June [ see p. 38986 ] . |
| 15 | For example , the Bishop of Durham was widely quoted in December 1988 as saying that UDCs and Housing Action Trusts were ‘ vast dispensers of patronage ’ . |
| 16 | Cayetano Paderanga , Economic Planning Secretary and Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority ( NEDA ) , was reported in May 1990 as saying that the government intended to loosen its monetary reins but to keep inflation in check at 11-13 per cent over 1990 by relying on fiscal restraint . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As the Chinese President Yang Shangkun visited Tehran and Esfahan in central Iran on Oct. 30-Nov. 2 , unnamed officials in the US administration were quoted in the Washington Post of Oct. 31 as claiming that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon using calutron equipment — capable of producing highly enriched uranium — purchased from China . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | Silviu Brucan , a leading NSF member , was reported on Feb. 3 as stating that it was impossible to share executive power among so many parties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ivan Boiko , was cited in Rossiiskaya gazeta of Oct. 29 as saying that the Directorate had been established at Yeltsin 's suggestion . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Gerard Robson , a member of the Falkland Islands ' Legislative Council , was quoted in the Financial Times of Feb. 16 as stating that Falkland Islanders would not be " overjoyed " by the Madrid agreement but recognized that matters of defence and foreign affairs were the responsibility of the UK government . |
| 28 | The South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted the South Korean delegation on Oct. 15 as saying that the information received had been " unsatisfactory " and " insufficient to clear up the incident " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |