Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [vb pp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The postal workers ' trade union publicly announced that it had decided to forbid its members to handle a particular class of mail and that it was aware that the action would be a breach of the law . |
| 2 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The constant complaint of the British Party against the NUWM was that it had failed to use its influence with employed workers and trade unionists . |
| 5 | The original detentions had been undertaken without the approval of the government , which admitted that it had failed to exert its authority over rebellious troops in the Agadez region who had taken the law into their own hands . |
| 6 | On May 25 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had agreed to reactivate its standby programme first agreed in November 1989 and suspended in February 1990 [ see pp. 37040 ; 37244 ] , and to allow an immediate drawing of US$240 million of the $1,400 million made available under the original agreement . |
| 7 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 8 | Iraq announces that it has started to pull its forces out of Kuwait , a claim ridiculed by the West . |