Example sentences of "said [conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preaching to the converted , he said that credit was the best indicator of forthcoming recession , or the end thereof . |
| 2 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 3 | Now you see why I said that sex was the easy bit ! |
| 4 | Education spokeswoman Ann Taylor said that fund-raising was the only way to buy much-needed books . |
| 5 | In the long term , Mr Heseltine said that privatisation was the only hope for the industry . |
| 6 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 7 | Picasso said that taste was the enemy of creativity and , eventually , those disabled artists who pursue that path of affecting taste will find their work stagnating , since they are facilitating an outsider 's vision of themselves . |
| 8 | He once said that television was the ‘ greatest single disaster in the history of mankind ’ . |