Example sentences of "that france had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports on July 30 said that France had indicated its support for a partial easing of sanctions against Iraq after the UN sanctions committee failed on July 24 unanimously to agree to an Iraqi request to sell oil worth US$2,400 million to buy food and medicines . |
| 2 | While the communiqué made clear that the alliance needed to confront " new security risks and challenges of a global nature " which threatened " common interests " , it was understood that France had expressed strong reservations about NATO extending its responsibilities beyond European frontiers . |
| 3 | June : A visit by French President Mitterrand led to the announcement that France had accepted Madagascar 's claim , supported by a UN vote in 1980 , to the islands of Les Glorieuses , Juan de Nova , Europa and Bassas de India , which had been under French control since 1882 . |
| 4 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard signed in Wellington on April 29 an agreement setting up a bilateral " friendship fund " ; accepting blame , he said that France had recognized its past wrongdoing in the Rainbow Warrior affair . |
| 5 | French President François Mitterrand said on Feb. 7 that France had decided to moderate some of its nuclear arms programmes . |
| 6 | President Alpha Oumar Konare announced on Oct. 9 that France had decided to given financial support for the implementation of the national peace pact signed in April with Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38853 ] . |
| 7 | Reports said that France had opposed the US-German declaration , claiming that it would duplicate the pan-European network of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 8 | Die Welt of Dec. 22 reported that France had raised the question of the payment of Second World War reparations to French nationals by Germany during the two-plus-four talks on German unification . |
| 9 | In a speech to the Federal Assembly on Sept. 13 following talks with President Vaclav Havel , Mitterrand admitted that France had abandoned Czechoslovakia in its hour of need . |
| 10 | On Oct. 31 , NATO officials in Brussels disclosed that France had dropped its objections to a pan-European security " forum " . |
| 11 | Unlike the sentimental francophile in Downing Street , the American president believed that France had ceased , for the foreseeable future , to be a great power . |
| 12 | The extravagant but spontaneous and absolutely marvellous celebrations which broke out in Lyon 's Palais des Sports the moment that Guy Forget completed his four sets victory over Pete Sampras to make sure that France had won the Davis Cup again for the first time in 59 years , will become part of sporting folklore . |
| 13 | It was reported on Nov. 11 that France had refused permission to members of the environmental group Greenpeace to conduct its own investigations on the Pacific nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll [ see p. 37886 ] . |
| 14 | Reports quoting French officials indicated that France had refused a last-minute Iranian demand for supplies of enriched uranium from the European consortium Eurodif . |
| 15 | A UN arbitration panel ruled on May 8 that France had committed " substantial violations " of a 1986 UN accord by repatriating two French agents convicted in New Zealand of sabotage and manslaughter . |
| 16 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 17 | A UN panel , finding in May 1990 that France had violated the 1986 agreement , proposed French payments into a " friendship fund " [ see p. 37459 ] . |