Example sentences of "[noun] [num] that it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 2 | The TPLF acknowledged on Jan. 6 that it had staged a " strategic withdrawal " from Debre Tabor . |
| 3 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 4 | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government announced on Jan. 23 that it had accepted " with only slight amendments " a peace plan to end its 15-year civil war with the National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , the US-backed rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi . |
| 5 | China reacted angrily to the US announcement on Sept. 2 that it had agreed to sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan [ see this page ] . |
| 6 | The IMF announced on May 21 that it had agreed to the government 's request to extend for an additional year its current three-year extended arrangement granted in 1989 . |
| 7 | Iraq announced on Aug. 5 that it had started to withdraw its forces from Kuwait , a claim which prompted US President George Bush publicly to denounce Saddam Hussein as a liar . |
| 8 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on May 4 that it had approved a credit equivalent to 5,860,000 special drawing rights ( about US$8,000,000 ) . |
| 9 | The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Aug. 11 that it had annulled the party 's registration , thus denying it legal status . |
| 10 | The Defence Department announced on Sept. 18 that it proposed to end or reduce operations at 151 military sites in 10 European and Asian countries . |
| 11 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 12 | The French government disclosed on July 5 that it had decorated Lt.-Col. Alain Mafart , one of the two French agents convicted for the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior , in Auckland harbour in 1985 [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] . |
| 13 | The South African government admitted on July 25 that it had spent R100,000,000 in an attempt to prevent the victory of the South West African People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) in pre-independence elections in Namibia in November 1989 [ see pp. 37031-32 ] . |
| 14 | The SNM had announced on Aug. 6 that it had agreed to join forces with two other guerrilla movements , the United Somali Congress and the Somali Patriotic Movement , in order to overthrow Barre . |
| 15 | The US Defence Department ( Pentagon ) confirmed on July 29 that it had agreed to sell arms , including laser-guided bombs , worth US$365,000,000 to Saudi Arabia , a move following the announcement by the Pentagon in early July of plans to sell the kingdom $473,000,000 worth of army jeeps and aircraft support services . |
| 16 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | In order to protect its position , the UK government announced on Sept. 3 that it intended to borrow an amount equivalent to 10,000 million European currency units ( US$1.00=ECU1.434 at that stage ) in currencies which would be sold for sterling through the foreign exchange market in addition to any normal market intervention . |
| 18 | Japan 's seventh-largest bank , Tokai Bank Ltd , announced on July 27 that it had uncovered a 63,000 million yen ( $450 million ) fraud involving deposit certificates . |
| 19 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 20 | However , Inravision Television in Bogotá reported on Aug. 13 that it had received a faxed message from the cartel which stated that the truce would remain in force . |
| 21 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 22 | The Japanese government confirmed on Sept. 16 that it had lodged a formal diplomatic protest over this decision . |
| 23 | The government announced on Aug. 1 that it had decided to bring the penal code in line with Islamic law by making the death penalty mandatory for anyone convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed . |
| 24 | The Organization of American States ( OAS ) announced in Washington on Aug. 28 that it had decided to send observers to oversee the elections for a Democratic Constituent Congress ( CCD ) scheduled to be held on Nov. 22 . |
| 25 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 26 | The government announced on July 24 that it had signed a bilateral anti-drug accord with the United States government which specifically linked the fight against drug trafficking with that against domestic guerrilla insurgency [ see pp. 38187-88 for May outline agreement ] . |
| 27 | The UAE announced on Aug. 19 that it had agreed to the deployment of Arab and other foreign forces . |
| 28 | The PDVSA had announced in early December 1990 that it planned to invest $25,000 million between 1991 and 1996 in what would be its biggest development programme in order to raise oil production from just over 2,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 3,500,000 bpd by 1995 . |
| 29 | Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution . |
| 30 | The former guerrilla group Alfaro Vive , Carajo ! announced on Oct. 21 that it had disbanded and that its members had joined the ruling Democratic Left party ( ID ) . |