Example sentences of "[num] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 2 | Soviet officials assembled for the Malta summit meeting between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union on Dec. 2-3 ( see pp. 37110-12 ) confirmed on Nov. 30 that the Warsaw Pact was to be remodelled along the lines of NATO , and would become an instrument for political dialogue with the Western nations . |
| 3 | Before his departure to the USA Cristiani announced on Jan. 30 that the curfew imposed on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37037 ] would be lifted on Feb. 1 . |
| 4 | It was announced on March 30 that the USSR Supreme Soviet had set up a USSR Union Republican State Committee for the Nationalities Question " to improve state administration in the sphere of national development and inter-ethnic relations " . |
| 5 | It was announced on Nov. 30 that the British Army presence in Northern Ireland would be increased by 500-600 troops , in view of " firm intelligence " indicating a likely increase in bombings and shootings by both republican and loyalist paramilitaries before Christmas . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , it was reported on May 30 that the majlis had re-elected as its Speaker Ayatollah Mehdi Karrubi , a vocal opponent of closer relations with the United States . |
| 7 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | UN officials confirmed on July 30 that the UN had cut its 1991 rehabilitation budget for Afghanistan from US$136,000,000 to $105,000,000 . |
| 9 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 10 | It was reported on Aug. 30 that the Sacred Union had decided to end its boycott . |
| 11 | An IAEA spokesman , David Kyd , said in Vienna on Sept. 30 that the inspection team , which resumed its inspection of weapons sites on Sept. 29 , had found " tangible evidence " of " Iraqi interest in a detonation system for a nuclear device " as well as documents identifying foreign companies which had supplied Iraq 's nuclear programme . |
| 12 | It was announced on Sept. 30 that the Exxon Corporation had reached final agreement with the Alaskan and US federal governments on a criminal fine of US$150,000,000 ( $25,000,000 of which was suspended ) and damage payments resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 . |
| 13 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 14 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 15 | It was announced on April 30 that the French company Elf Aquitaine had negotiated an agreement on the Aktyubinsk oblast ( region ) field . |
| 16 | A further sign of an easing of the deadlock was the announcement on July 30 that the government had " no objection " to the international monitoring of a general strike scheduled to take place on Aug. 3-4 [ see below ] , thus partially conceding another ANC demand . |
| 17 | In addition there had been a report on June 30 that the Supreme Council had changed the law on the status of deputies , including a provision for annulling a deputy 's mandate if his or her activity tended to hinder the development of an independent democratic state . |
| 18 | British Steel originally announced on January 30 that the shipments would go by road after March 31 because increased costs meant that the rail service was no longer viable . |
| 19 | An intensive investigation failed to uncover evidence sufficient to warrant his prosecution , and unconfirmed news reports had claimed on Jan. 22 that the government had decided to abandon the Bloch investigation . |
| 20 | Klaus announced on March 22 that the government had decided to cancel Czechoslovakia 's multilateral agreements with the CMEA ( COMECON ) under which the exchange rates between the crown and the currencies of the other CMEA countries were fixed by joint arrangement [ see p. 37334 ] . |
| 21 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 22 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 23 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) reported from Geneva on June 22 that the government needed antibiotics , tents and blankets , trucks and bulldozers . |
| 24 | He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Kuna , the official Kuwaiti news agency , had reported on July 22 that the Egyptians had put forward a four-point plan to settle the dispute , which would ultimately involve a conference of the major Arab states . |
| 26 | Qiao Shi , a member of the politburo 's standing committee , told a national conference on Oct. 22 that the country 's " serious onslaught " on crime would continue following the Games . |
| 27 | Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi said on Jan. 22 that the USA was also to provide Israel with battle reports , logistical information and instantaneous " real-time " satellite reconnaissance data under a " joint co-ordination apparatus " . |
| 28 | Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 . |
| 29 | It was announced on March 22 that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) would be asked to help in returning 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries with which Pretoria did not have diplomatic relations . |
| 30 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |