Example sentences of "announce [that] [pron] [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dora was summoned ; her appearance , announcing that she was taking her protégée back to the auberge without delay , did nothing to help matters . |
| 2 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 3 | Her chances received a considerable boost when two other possible contenders for the deputy leadership , Mr Brown and Mr Tony Blair ( Employment ) announced that they were backing her . |
| 4 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 5 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 6 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 7 | When in August 1986 GM announced that it was merging its North American heavy truck operations with Volvo , under Volvo 's control , the future of Bedford looked bleak . |
| 8 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 9 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |
| 10 | After the vote , the government of Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , announced that it was withdrawing its threat to resign . |
| 11 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 12 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 13 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 14 | On Sept. 28 the United Kingdom announced that it was scrapping its short-range battlefield nuclear weapons but would continue with plans to arm the Navy with the multi-warhead Trident D-5 submarine-launched missile . |
| 15 | However , on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the United States announced that it was to cut its 1990 contribution to FAO from $70,000,000 to $18,000,000 and would consider withdrawing from the organization altogether . |
| 16 | On the following day Perot announced that he was abandoning his campaign . |
| 17 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 18 | CHRIS PATTEN , the Secretary of State for the Environment , yesterday announced that he was overturning his predecessor Nicholas Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow an instant , private new town to be built on the Berkshire/Hampshire borders , south-east of Wokingham . |
| 19 | Jumblatt also announced that he was suspending his own participation in the Cabinet until the army had withdrawn from the National Library , the Emir Amin Palace and the Bayt al-Din Palace — buildings the PSP had recently been occupying . |
| 20 | I 'll pick a different slot each week and get the jock on duty to announce that I 'm doing it . ’ |
| 21 | Recently , US West and IBM have announced that they are to move their business headquarters to the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 23 | JIM HICKEY has announced that he is to leave his post as director of Filmhouse in Edinburgh to pursue a career in film-making . |
| 24 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 25 | Mitsui OSK , Japan 's second-largest shipping company , has just announced that it is to close its tokkin accounts ( short-term stockmarket-punting money ) to help pay for its capital spending . |
| 26 | The Benefits Agency , an executive arm of the Department of Social Services , has announced that it is switching its operation from Holyhead to Llangefni , 16 miles away . |
| 27 | British Gas has announced that it is to abandon its operations in Ecuador , citing economic grounds . |
| 28 | The town of Bolton has just announced that it is to make its football hero , Nat Lofthouse , a freeman of the borough . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Berkeley 's Computer Science Research Group has announced that it is to end its work on BSD 4.4 following the final releases this year . |
| 30 | Oki also announced that it is changing its membership within Unix International from an official member to a general member . |