Example sentences of "announce that it [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator .
2 Just after the war began the prime minister was asked by a Conservative backbencher to condemn the BBC for announcing that it would avoid calling British troops ‘ our troops ’ .
3 IBM Deutschland GmbH greeted Gerstner 's appointment by announcing that it would cut nearly 4,000 jobs this year , up from the 3,000 planned : ‘ We need a cost efficient structure as soon as possible , ’ chief executive Bernhard Dorn said .
4 On Jan. 17 , challenging the government by repudiating unilaterally the restrictions prohibiting " any activities of acts whatsoever " formally imposed in February 1988 , the United Democratic Front ( UDF ) held a press conference in Johannesburg , announcing that it would resume full public activity and reopen its offices .
5 On June 1 President Ranasinghe Premadasa had held talks with LTTE leaders in Colombo , and on June 6 the government conceded a key LTTE demand , announcing that it would dissolve the North-Eastern Provincial Council ( elected in late 1988 , when the province was under the control of Indian troops , and in the face of an LTTE election boycott — see p. 37007 ) and hold fresh elections .
6 Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20 , 1990 , announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO , withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference .
7 The new Labour government elected in June 1992 moved quickly to repair Israel 's relations with the USA , announcing that it would halt large-scale government investment in settlements [ see p. 38946 ] .
8 Barclays Bank plc took the step in March 1984 of announcing that it would aim to keep its base rate within ¼ — ⅜%; of the prevailing three month interbank rate , but there no longer seems to be a very precise linkage between the two rates .
9 In much the same way that Kodak announced , in May of last year ( ahead of the actual launch ) , its plans for its revolutionary Photo CD project , ( a new technology which will revolutionise the way that pictures are viewed ) , so too Reebok , in March of this year , made a pre-emptive strike by announcing that it will be launching , ( initially at the Olympics in July ) , its latest technology , which will be introduced to tennis at the US Open , in September .
10 In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures .
11 One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday .
12 But the speculation died on Tuesday when Congress announced that it would support the government in a financial debate in parliament starting on February 21st .
13 On February 19th Harrods announced that it would sack 600 of its workforce , on top of 90 redundancies last month .
14 Just before Christmas SBC announced that it would cut 500 jobs in Switzerland as part of an economy drive .
15 Next month the party 's Central Committee announced that it would institute a multi-party democracy .
16 During the afternoon , it announced that it would auction a new stock later in the month , providing an expected further £2 billion to £3 billion , to start funding the public sector borrowing requirement , which is forecast at £28 billion for this year .
17 In March 1967 the NILP announced that it would contest all the council seats in the May elections .
18 After the improvement GA announced that it would like to seek further capital to finance possible expansion .
19 In March 1977 the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced that it would target asbestos as one of the 15 substances to receive priority attention under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 .
20 At the same time the company announced that it would spend £225,000 on installing a special air filter in the factory .
21 Early last month , the New-York Historical Society announced that it would close its library and cease all other operations to concentrate its efforts on resolving the grave financial crisis that threatens America 's oldest historical society with extinction .
22 Earlier this spring , the Society , which had closed its galleries and ended all public programmes , announced that it would close its library and shut down entirely unless it received emergency public funds .
23 Racal Electronics Plc 's problematic data communications equipment business won a big fillip yesterday when British Telecommunications Plc announced that it would make the company its preferred supplier of new data communications equipment in the UK and internationally .
24 Storage Technology Corp sprang a surprise after the markets closed on Thursday last week when it announced that it would be buying privately-held would-be competitor in the disk array business , Chatsworth , California-based Amperif Corp .
25 However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland .
26 Tom Williams , Labour Member for the constituency in which the colliery was situated , announced that it would be folly to continue the debate , and the dispute , perhaps not a very difficult one in any event , got itself settled .
27 At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved .
28 Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers .
29 Despite the assault , the US government announced that it would maintain normal diplomatic relations with the new Iranian regime .
30 It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee .
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