Example sentences of "said [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " . |
| 2 | The SDPP said that it planned to challenge the vote in the Constitutional Court , which had overturned similar legislation in March 1989 [ see pp. 36528 ; 37592-93 ] . |
| 3 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 4 | For Cuba , Malmierca characterized the resolution as setting a date for war and said that it violated the UN Charter . |
| 5 | They each said that it suited them , that kind of relationship . |
| 6 | The NCCK welcomed the decision and said that it signalled a new era of reconciliation , justice , tolerance and brotherhood . |
| 7 | The association said that it had heard of several cases in which EHOs had ordered unacceptable action from wine and drinks wholesalers under the 1990 Food Safety Act . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 9 | UAL said that it had been advised by AAC that syndication of the financing would be possible on revised terms . |
| 10 | Bonn officials last night played down the extent of the last-minute rethink of their tactics at Strasbourg and one said that it had all been a ‘ silly misunderstanding ’ . |
| 11 | Kroll said that it had detected $2.4 billion in Iraqi-controlled deposits at some 50 banks . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate said that it had rejected the company 's plan to return Trawsfynydd 's reactor one to operation for six months of tests . |
| 13 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 14 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 15 | Asked whether the new rules have influenced either the amount or type of advertising undertaken , 56 per cent of those responding said that it had not and 11 per cent said that it had exercised only a very marginal effect . |
| 16 | Asked whether the new rules have influenced either the amount or type of advertising undertaken , 56 per cent of those responding said that it had not and 11 per cent said that it had exercised only a very marginal effect . |
| 17 | Giving evidence in court , he said that it had been very crowded because there had been a karaoke session before people started watching the boxing match . |
| 18 | Only one in ten said that it had been suggested to them by a salesman , agent or someone at the shop ; about three-quarters said instead that they personally had thought of it , and most of the rest that it had been suggested by their wife or husband . |
| 19 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 20 | He said that it had not yet been decided how to go about making the cuts in all areas , notably in France , and it is not clear whether the figure of 3,000 includes the 800 to 900 positions that Bull said last week that it intended to eliminate in France . |
| 21 | AT&T Co yesterday said that it had filed an application with the UK regulatory authorities to challenge British Telecommunications Plc by offering communications services within the UK , and between the UK and the US . |
| 22 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 23 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 24 | He said that it had been done wrong . |
| 25 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Dartford — who , as ever , was frank — did not speak any honeyed words about the inspectorate but said that it had been captured by the left in the 1960s and remained captured , and that it was a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 27 | On El Salvador and Guatemala , Amnesty International said that it had " overwhelming evidence " that the Army and police were responsible for most of the kidnappings and political murders attributed to death squads . |
| 28 | Gorbachev said that it had been an " event of enormous importance for our bilateral relations and in the context of world politics " and that one could now speak of a " new phase of co-operation " between the USA and the Soviet Union , describing Bush as " the kind of person to do business with " . |
| 29 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 30 | Peugeot said that it had lost production of 49,000 cars as a result of the strikes . |