Example sentences of "[conj] announced [that] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Five others either declared their candidacy or announced that they would soon do so : Edmund G. ( Jerry ) Brown Jr , Governor of California in 1975-83 ; Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , and Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia . |
| 2 | They set up a satellite link with Tokyo and announced that they would charge only 5 per cent buyer 's premium instead of the now customary 10 per cent . |
| 3 | In the middle of 1989 they sold their holding on Adobe and announced that they would be seeking to develop their own version of PostScript and their own font technology . |
| 4 | The Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela signed accords on energy , transport and communications and announced that they planned to create a free-trade zone between their countries by mid-1994 . |
| 5 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 6 | Described as a " magazine for the fair daughters of Great Britain and Ireland " it contained a variety of essays , articles , poems and serials when it first appeared , and announced that its aim was to " convince the sceptical that it is wise and well to qualify women to maintain themselves honourably and decently when through illness , death and desertion or bankrupt circumstances [ they are ] thrown on their own resources " . |
| 7 | I descended the stairs half-naked to one of the yelling bedrooms and announced that I would have to leave . |
| 8 | Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats . |
| 9 | One night I was there , before the start of the film , a young man leaped onto the stage and announced that he was an unemployed actor looking for a role in a movie . |
| 10 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 11 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 12 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 13 | In July the prime minister of Belgium and a committed Europeanist , Paul-Henri Spaak , stated that he supported a European Assembly and announced that he had asked the European Movement to consider plans for such a body . |
| 14 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 15 | In the Philippines , Taruc resumed his struggle against the government and announced that he was a communist while in Indonesia , whatever triggered it off , communists at Madiun in September 1948 attempted to stage a revolution within the revolution . |
| 16 | He stood up , slipped on a jacket and announced that he was ready to go . |
| 17 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 18 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 19 | Widgery 's colleague , an NUS vice-president , conveniently ignored the other fifteen people sharing the post and announced that he was the vice-president . |
| 20 | Widgery meanwhile brandished his privately-sponsored U card and announced that he represented British student journalists . |
| 21 | He was extremely hurt by that and announced that he was a moderate and a patriot . |
| 22 | Rakowski in his Jan. 27 report had stated that a new party should make a break with the PUWP 's Stalinist mentality , and announced that he would not be a candidate for its leadership . |
| 23 | Mulroney , however , professed himself still optimistic that the Accord would succeed and announced that he was commissioning Lowell Murray , the Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations , as a special Meech Lake emissary . |
| 24 | He identified high wage rises as the most serious problem , and announced that he would hold talks with employers and unions on how to restrain wage increases . |
| 25 | Justin Metsing Lekhanya , the Chairman of the Military Council , formally removed executive and legislative powers from the King [ see p. 37238 ] , and announced that he would rule in conjunction with the Military Council . |
| 26 | Kaunda said that his country 's experience of multiparty politics — from independence in 1964 to the prohibition of opposition parties in 1973 — had been " a sad one " , but predicted an optimistic future for Zambian democracy and announced that he was looking forward to " a good fight " in elections scheduled for October 1992 . |
| 27 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 28 | He alleged that Gamsakhurdia was behind the raid on the camp , and announced that he was forming a political party to combat the " fascism " of Gamsakhurdia 's Georgia government . |
| 29 | President Richard von Weizsäcker described the events as " frightening and disgraceful " and announced that he would visit one of the affected hostels . |
| 30 | A week before it was due , Mamaloni resigned as leader of PAP and announced that he would continue in office as the head of a government of national unity . |