Example sentences of "it announced [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 2 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ . |
| 5 | It announced that the survey had been stimulated by ‘ fears ’ that forest decline of the European type ‘ may be occurring in Britain ’ . |
| 6 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 7 | Recently it announced that it is to begin testing all personal computers assembled in Russia from imported components . |
| 8 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 9 | Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 12 | Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 13 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 14 | The US Treasury began to experience a depletion of its gold stock , so in August 1971 it announced that official convertibility of dollars into gold was temporarily suspended . |
| 15 | Accordingly in 1982 it announced that , while varying systems could be established to reflect differing departmental roles , all departments were to introduce ‘ management systems like MINIS ’ together with ‘ a structure of organization ’ in which identifiable functions could be assigned to ‘ responsibility centres ’ ( Efficiency and Effectiveness , 1982 , para. 29 and annex C ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Last August BML called on publishers to submit a smaller , more selective number of titles , and it announced that it was compiling a ‘ top title ’ list for the winter sale . |
| 18 | It announced that the BCP was being " de-Stalinized " and transformed into " a new type of modern Marxist party " committed to " human and democratic socialism " . |
| 19 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 20 | After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid . |
| 21 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 22 | It announced that Mexican drug enforcement agents in the USA were being ordered home immediately , and that US DEA personnel based in Mexico would have to cease their activities . |
| 23 | On Aug. 18 , however , the UK government did an about-turn when it announced that 1,800 soldiers would be placed at the disposal of the UN in order to ensure the protection of humanitarian convoys in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 24 | Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers . |
| 25 | It announced that : The National Council has decided immediately to approach with concrete proposals the British Labour Party , the Trades Union Congress , the Co-operative Party , the C.P.G.B. and all other working class bodies . |