Example sentences of "announce [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan. 27 USC broadcasts statement on Radio Mogadishu announcing that it had taken over the government . |
| 2 | The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages . |
| 3 | Only this week , Whitbread announced that it had won the franchise to operate TGI Friday 's restaurants in Canada , Washington State and Oregon . |
| 4 | However , also in 1964 , China announced that it had exploded their first nuclear device , and that caused worldwide concern , particularly to their close neighbours , the U.S.S.R. |
| 5 | Last week , a group from Boston 's Joslin diabetes centre announced that it had devised a blood test that can identify children most at risk . |
| 6 | British Telecom announced that it had , officially , made £458 million and was therefore constrained to raise prices , while Reagan began to blacklist firms sticking to their oil pipeline contracts . |
| 7 | In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold , estimating the reserves at £300 million . |
| 8 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday announced that it had linked up with France Telecom to offer a version of the Macintosh PowerBook 180 portable to be called the PowerBop , Reuter reports from Paris . |
| 9 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |
| 10 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 11 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 12 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 13 | Far Eastern trader Inchcape Plc yesterday announced that it had taken a 15.3% stake in Gestetner Holdings Plc , the world 's largest independent photocopier dealer , with the support of 29.5% shareholder Ricoh Co Ltd . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 16 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Airlift Book Company this week announced that it had been appointed exclusive UK distributor for Shambhala Publications , taking over from Rider Books ( part of Random House ) on 1st April . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , therefore , that when the National Trust announced that it had recruited its 2 millionth member last autumn , rejoicing was not unmixed with the occasional grumble that the Trust had become too big ; in other words there was a presumption by some that such a large membership must inevitably be accompanied by the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in the organisation itself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On Jan. 31 the federal Collective State Presidency announced that it had ordered ( unspecified ) " special measures " to try to end the violence ; according to unofficial reports a majority of the Presidency members had voted two days earlier against sending federal troops to Kosovo to put down the unrest . |
| 22 | In November 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had approved the drawing of the final sum , equivalent to 7,460,000 special drawing rights ( SDRs — approximately US$9,500,000 ) , in support of Nepal 's economic and financial programme for 1989-90 under the SDR26,110,000 structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) first agreed in October 1987 [ see also pp. 36008-09 ] . |
| 23 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 24 | On May 25 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had agreed to reactivate its standby programme first agreed in November 1989 and suspended in February 1990 [ see pp. 37040 ; 37244 ] , and to allow an immediate drawing of US$240 million of the $1,400 million made available under the original agreement . |
| 25 | Kohl and the French President François Mitterrand had already appealed for emergency aid when they met in Assmannshausen on June 22 , and on the same day West Germany announced that it had agreed to guarantee a DM5,000 million ( approximately US$2,980 million ) loan to the Soviet Union . ) |
| 26 | In its first communiqués the PFKG announced that it had replaced the " defunct and corrupt " al Sabah regime and had closed Kuwait 's borders and imposed an indefinite curfew . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | Despite evident internal disagreements on the pace of economic reform , the government on May 14 announced that it had agreed on a programme of unified reforms to be implemented over the following months . |
| 29 | On Nov. 22 China announced that it had not " provided any military assistance to the resistance forces in Cambodia " since the UN agreed its peace plan in October . |
| 30 | The French Ministry of Defence announced that it had exploded a 35-kiloton nuclear device on Mururoa Atoll on July 5 , 1990 , the fourth such test since June 1989 . |