Example sentences of "[num] [art] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 2 | More significantly in 1993 the Committee recommended that it would be sensible for all drinks in the UK to be taxed equally , according to their alcohol content . |
| 3 | On Jan. 30 the USA announced that it was withdrawing in 1992 17,000 more troops than had been planned , and closing or cutting back 83 more bases . |
| 4 | In 1979 the government announced that it was determined , unlike the previous Labour administration , to control and reduce public expenditure . |
| 5 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 6 | On Sept. 10 the opposition confirmed that it would not return to the Assembly until its demands — including an early general election — had been met . |
| 7 | On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside . |
| 8 | On May 7 the CTU announced that it had suspended the general strike from May 8 , and called for the formation of a new government capable of tackling " national and economic issues " . |
| 9 | Commenting on the assassination in its editorial of May 21 The Hindu stated that it was " difficult to assert at this stage if … |
| 10 | On May 18 the ANC announced that it would not participate in further constitutional discussions with the government , " or in any all-party congress to discuss the mechanisms for drawing up a new democratic constitution " . |
| 11 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 12 | On Nov. 17 the UPP announced that it was to receive a major defector from the DLP on the following day . |
| 13 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 14 | On Aug. 5 the government announced that it had provided UN inspectors details of its " biological research for military purposes " , but stressed that " there is positively no biological activity for ammunition or weapons purposes " . |
| 15 | On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act . |
| 16 | On May 29 the USC said that it would be receptive to dialogue with all groups at talks to be held shortly in Djibouti . |
| 17 | On April 25 the UNHCR said that it had received only $43,000,000 of the $238,500,000 it had requested as aid for Kurdish refugees . |
| 18 | On May 16 the NPRC announced that it would respect all Sierra Leone 's obligations to the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and to the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) including the deployment of the ECOMOG ( ECOWAS Monitoring Group ) in the country as part of the Liberian peace process [ see p. 38853 ] . |
| 19 | On Dec. 27 the government announced that it intended to end the sectarian dispute by acquiring the contested site and building both a mosque and a Hindu temple . |
| 20 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 21 | Following press reports , on Aug. 8 the SADF confirmed that it trained Inkatha members at a camp in the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia . |
| 22 | Despite being outnumbered by three or four to one the KNU claimed that it had inflicted heavy casualties . |
| 23 | On the evening of April 15 the PRI announced that it would not be supporting the new government in parliament . |
| 24 | On Nov. 15 the government announced that it would implement the report 's recommendations . |
| 25 | In 1900 a dispute arose because it was said that the Taff Vale Railway Company had victimized a trade unionist who led a wage demand . |
| 26 | In November 1989 the government announced that it wanted gradually to stop all exports of logs , ostensibly to help domestic enterprises , and it was announced on March 9 , 1990 , that the government would impose levies and quotas on some sawn timber and veneer exports , starting on June 1 . |
| 27 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 28 | The Solent searched for nearly 45 minutes until at 1945 the coastguard decided that it was too dangerous to continue searching close inshore in the dark and very bad conditions and suspended the search . |
| 29 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 30 | In March 1967 the NILP announced that it would contest all the council seats in the May elections . |