Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] announced that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was announced that the un-named author [ Vial ] of the plan intended to deliver a course of public lectures in veterinary medicine that winter . |
| 32 | The News of the World called it ‘ The most shocking sporting event ever to be screened ’ and newsmen from around the world hurried to interview the organizers of the Sex Olympics when it was announced that these very contemporary games were due to be staged in 1971 . |
| 33 | It was announced that AMK , the Passfield based company , have retained the contract for the 250 Service known as the Liphook Shuttle and will continue to operate the current timetable . |
| 34 | A recent jumble sale made £200 for the Le Court Cheshire Home , Greatham , and it was announced that the outing this year will be to Sissinghurst , when husbands and friends will be invited to join in . |
| 35 | By 1884 it was announced that Murchison 's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable . |
| 36 | '' ’ But in 1965 , it was announced that no new university would be built for ten years and that priority would go to the expansion of existing universities . |
| 37 | But on Christmas Eve , the final day on which anything could be done , it was announced that the sentence would stand . |
| 38 | A week later it was announced that she and Mark Phillips would separate . |
| 39 | BRITISH track and field athletes claimed a first yesterday when it was announced that men and women of the same standard will compete against each other . |
| 40 | In March 1916 , it was announced that the S.M.E.T. had contracted with the County of London Electricity Supply Co. for bulk supply of current , both for lighting and for that part of the tramways which they supplied . |
| 41 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |
| 42 | In March 1935 , it was announced that the Sutton — Croydon — Crystal Palace route was to open in October . |
| 43 | Soon afterwards , it was announced that although no more trams were to be ‘ rehabilitated ’ , the light timber framed windscreens , devised for these cars , would be fitted to other cars as overhauled . |
| 44 | In the same month it was announced that the abandonment of the trams would take place over two years , in stages , by groups of routes working from West to East , so that Charlton Works and the nearby tram graveyard at Penhall Road could remain open until the last stage . |
| 45 | Trolleybus routes 630 and 654 continued to operate unhindered and without modification until 1958 , when it was announced that as many of the vehicles were now over 25 years old ( including those on route 654 ) , they needed replacement and what better than the ‘ more flexible ’ motor bus . |
| 46 | A few hours later that same day , it was announced that three young Protestants , John Orchin , Samuel Richmond and Victor McCready , had been charged with the murders of three Roman Catholics . |
| 47 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 48 | At this meeting a major publication presenting the results of Phase I of the project was released , and it was announced that ODA would provide further funding to enable the project area to be extended northwards to Lake Turkana . |
| 49 | The following November it was announced that because of the impending reduction in the Canberra force the role of Bassingbourn would reduce and that by mid 1969 the Station would close . |
| 50 | And shortly afterwards it was announced that he had cancelled his ‘ patronage ’ of the ceremony . |
| 51 | The occasion of this denunciation was the annual meeting in Venice this October of the twenty international private societies for the safeguarding of the city , at which it was announced that they , on the other hand , had spent £750,000 of privately raised money . |
| 52 | Repayment started in 1946 , initially only to men aged 65 or over and to women aged 60 or over , but the conditions for claiming varied over the years until 1972 when it was announced that there would be a ‘ general release ’ and that all credits were to be repaid without any further restrictions . |
| 53 | On June 2nd it was announced that Mr Soros 's Quantum Fund would form a partnership with British Land , a property firm , to invest an initial £500m in British commercial property . |
| 54 | On 21 November it was announced that the pope had decided to increase the size of commissions to thirty , and to allow the Council direct election of most of the new members . |
| 55 | According to the Lanercost Chronicle , the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford were sent to Renilworth to ask the king to come to parliament , but on 12 January they returned to Westminster and it was announced that the king refused to do so . |
| 56 | It was announced that William Joyce had been appointed Deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 57 | The following month it was announced that Dulles would specialise on matters concerning the peace treaty and Truman approved arrangements for Dulles to visit Japan and Korea in June in order to confer with MacArthur and the Japanese government . |
| 58 | In a report of an International conference on Frontiers in Education , it was announced that Mr Michael Macdonald-Ross of the Open University was doing research into the efficacy of the printed word : " a field where very little research had been done . " |
| 59 | Before the next race , the Canadian Grand Prix , it was announced that Hunt had been stripped of his points from the British Grand Prix , Hunt , and the McLaren team , were incensed by the decision and went out and won the Canadian and US Grands Prix ( East ) in successive weeks . |
| 60 | At first it was conjectured that Dorman-Smith had gone to London to obtain a new policy , but on 5 August it was announced that he had resigned ‘ for health reasons ’ and was to be succeeded by Major-General Sir Hubert Rance , whom Mountbatten had appointed in May 1945 to head his military administration after he fell out with the Civil Affairs officers who wanted to get rid of Aung San . |