Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] announced on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Amal leader Nabi Berri announced on Aug. 27 that his group was in possession of the remains of two Israeli " prisoners " , and would allow the Red Cross to examine the bodies once Israel had freed 28 Lebanese women held in Israeli prisons . |
| 2 | President Didier Ratsiraka announced on July 28 that he had dismissed his government and would organize a referendum on a new constitution before the end of the year . |
| 3 | Minister in the Prime Minister 's Office Meechai Viravaidya announced on March 25 a major crackdown on the country 's prodigious " sex industry " . |
| 4 | Interior Minister Abdelhamid Escheikh announced on June 11 that the turnout of voters had been 79.37 per cent . |
| 5 | Federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic announced on April 19 a 30 per cent devaluation of the dinar . |
| 6 | Agriculture Minister Nexhmedin Dumani announced on Aug. 5 that officials were to begin measuring out land that week in readiness to return holdings to peasants dispossessed under the former Stalinist regime , following enactment of a land privatisation bill in parliament at the end of July . |
| 7 | Prime Minister André Milongo announced on Nov. 26 that the referendum on the draft constitution scheduled for Nov. 30 would be postponed until December . |
| 8 | US Secretary of Agriculture Edward Madigan announced on March 9 that the USA would allocate to each of the three former Soviet Baltic republics further food aid worth US$5,000,000 . |
| 9 | Gouled Aptidon announced on Nov. 27 that he was prepared hold a referendum in order to " consult " the population on " changes to be made in the political domain " . |
| 10 | Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel announced on Sept. 21 that the US United Technologies Corporation had won a contract worth US$855,000,000 to supply Turkey with 75 Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk military helicopters . |
| 11 | Defence Minister Antonio Ermán González announced on Nov. 2 that the reduction in number of senior officers , due to begin " this year " , would be between 25 and 30 per cent , with a more gradual three- or five-year plan for officers below the rank of general , admiral or brigadier . |
| 12 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 13 | The Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announced on Nov. 8 the formation of a new police unit which would have the specific task of stabilizing and controlling political unrest . |
| 14 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 15 | Shehabuddin Ahmed announced on Dec. 14 that parliamentary elections would take place on March 2 , 1991 . |
| 16 | In an attempt to revitalize his campaign Bush announced on Aug. 13 that Secretary of State James Baker was to become White House Chief of Staff , effective from Aug. 23 . |
| 17 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces . |
| 18 | Executive Secretary Frank Drilon announced on Aug. 14 that the current prohibition on the return of the body of former President Ferdinand Marcos would be lifted before Aquino left office in 1992 . |
| 19 | King Hassan announced on June 9 the creation of a central electoral commission and provincial commissions which together would ensure the safety of the elections at all their stages , from registration of the electoral lists to the declaration of the results of the vote . |
| 20 | President Zhelyu Zhelev announced on July 16 that local and general elections would be held on Sept. 29 . |
| 21 | After talks with the IMF Vieira announced on April 12 , 1990 , a series of measures to control expenditure in the public sector and to centralize tax collection . |
| 22 | Soviet Defence Ministry spokesperson Col.- Gen. Nikolai Chervov announced on Dec. 15 , 1989 , that Soviet military spending was to be cut by 8.2 per cent in 1990 ( falling from 77,300 million roubles in 1989 to 71,000 million roubles in 1990 ) as a result of " new political thinking on defence doctrines ' . |
| 23 | President Robert Mugabe announced on April 30th that the government is to buy 70 big commercial farms , covering 190,000 hectares , as the first step in a plan to redistribute some 5m hectares of white-owned land to blacks . |
| 24 | President Robert Mugabe announced on Jan. 19 the merger of the Ministry of Trade and Commerce with that of Industry and Technology , to be managed on an acting basis by the Minister of Industry and Technology , Bernard Chidzero , who was also Senior Minister for Finance , Economic Planning and Development . |
| 25 | Minister of Justice Doug Graham announced on Dec. 17 that extradition proceedings would not be pursued against Andries , and that all outstanding warrants in connection with the crime would be cancelled . |
| 26 | To mark the start of the transition to a market economy , Prime Minister Dashiyn Byambasuren announced on Jan. 15 that wages and all benefits would be doubled with effect from the following day . |
| 27 | Lebanese Prime Minister Umar Karami announced on Nov. 2 that the USA had asked Israel to " cease all military activity in southern Lebanon at once because the Middle East peace process can not afford such aggressive acts " . |
| 28 | President Abdou Diouf announced on April 7 that he was appointing the president ( Speaker ) of the National Assembly , Habib Thiam , as Prime Minister , a post which had been in abeyance since 1983 , shortly after Thiam 's removal from it [ see p. 32180 ] . |
| 29 | US President Bush announced on May 28 that Haitian " boat people " intercepted at sea by the US Coastguard would be returned immediately to Haiti . |
| 30 | People have short memories , and it may be useful to remind the House that in 1972 President Pompidou announced on French television that there would be a European common currency by 31 December 1980 . |