Example sentences of "[noun] announced [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 2 | On May 15 , 1990 , the Vatican announced that it was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Romania , broken in 1950 . |
| 3 | In a joint statement issued on Sept. 25 Meyer and Ramaphosa announced that their talks had progressed sufficiently to allow President de Klerk and Mandela to meet the following day . |
| 4 | Fretilín announced that it would boycott the investigation , dismissing military guarantees of safety for those giving evidence to the commission . |
| 5 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 6 | In late September , soon after Mussolini 's escape to Germany , the Standortkommandantur on Piazza Garibaldi announced that there would be a reward of 1800 lire — then approximately the equivalent of £25 sterling — for every prisoner-of-war denounced to the authorities . |
| 7 | Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction . |
| 8 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 9 | After the meeting the FRUD announced that it was quite prepared to open a dialogue on the basis of an immediate bilateral ceasefire and reforms announced by Gouled Aptidon . |
| 10 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 11 | The German authorities announced that they would request his extradition in connection with his alleged collaboration with international terrorists and in particular the 1983 bombing of the French consulate in Berlin [ see p. 33039 ] . |
| 12 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 13 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 14 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 15 | And the flamboyant Chelsea chairman announced that his 11-year marriage to wife Pam is over . |
| 16 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 17 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 18 | In January Czechoslovakia announced that it would press for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops from its territory by the end of 1990 . |
| 19 | In that case , Greenwich announced that it was to adopt an admissions policy which , in relation to over-subscribed schools , gave preference to those resident in Greenwich over those resident outside the borough . |
| 20 | For his part , Croatia 's President Franjo Tudjman announced that his republic would follow suit unless agreement on Yugoslavia 's future was reached by the end of June . |
| 21 | On April 8 Tudjman announced that he had received assurances from the JNA leadership that the JNA would not interfere in the settlement of the political crisis , but on April 11 the Croatian government announced the establishment of a de facto republican army in the form of a Croatian National Guard Corps . |
| 22 | On Oct. 23 Shamir announced that he himself , rather than Foreign Minister David Levi , would lead the Israeli delegation at the conference . |
| 23 | In a speech delivered on March 18 President Najibullah announced that he was prepared to resign " all powers and all executive authority " on the establishment of an interim government — a central part of a UN-backed peace plan for Afghanistan . |
| 24 | On May 27 President Najibullah announced that his government would accept a ceasefire with the mujaheddin in order to allow the implementation of a UN peace plan . |
| 25 | Immediately afterwards the UDF deputies announced that they were withdrawing from the GNA indefinitely . |
| 26 | The deputies announced that they were resigning because the government " has not been able to keep its promises " with regard to the Kurdish population . |
| 27 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 28 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 29 | Last month ICI announced that its third Klea ICI 134a ( HFC134a ) plant will be built at Mihara , near Hiroshima in Japan . |
| 30 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |