Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 2 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 3 | The TPLF acknowledged on Jan. 6 that it had staged a " strategic withdrawal " from Debre Tabor . |
| 4 | Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million . |
| 5 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 6 | The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government announced on Jan. 23 that it had accepted " with only slight amendments " a peace plan to end its 15-year civil war with the National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , the US-backed rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi . |
| 7 | It was in Meiji 22nd that it became so . |
| 8 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 9 | China reacted angrily to the US announcement on Sept. 2 that it had agreed to sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan [ see this page ] . |
| 10 | The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) said on Sept. 2 that it did not intend to issue " a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere " . |
| 11 | Arturo Moreno , the deputy secretary-general , resigned on May 10 after it emerged that the transcript of the taped telephone conversations , lodged with the Supreme Court , implicated him . |
| 12 | Miss Rantzen , 52 , won the damages from The People newspaper in December 1991 after it accused her of keeping quiet about an alleged sex pervert . |
| 13 | The IMF announced on May 21 that it had agreed to the government 's request to extend for an additional year its current three-year extended arrangement granted in 1989 . |
| 14 | Iraq announced on Aug. 5 that it had started to withdraw its forces from Kuwait , a claim which prompted US President George Bush publicly to denounce Saddam Hussein as a liar . |
| 15 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on May 4 that it had approved a credit equivalent to 5,860,000 special drawing rights ( about US$8,000,000 ) . |
| 16 | The Russian Justice Ministry announced on Aug. 11 that it had annulled the party 's registration , thus denying it legal status . |
| 17 | The Defence Department announced on Sept. 18 that it proposed to end or reduce operations at 151 military sites in 10 European and Asian countries . |
| 18 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 19 | The RBI announced on July 18 that it had recently sent a total of 46.9 tonnes of gold from its reserves to the Bank of England as collateral for raising loans . |
| 20 | The French government disclosed on July 5 that it had decorated Lt.-Col. Alain Mafart , one of the two French agents convicted for the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior , in Auckland harbour in 1985 [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] . |
| 21 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 22 | The South African government admitted on July 25 that it had spent R100,000,000 in an attempt to prevent the victory of the South West African People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) in pre-independence elections in Namibia in November 1989 [ see pp. 37031-32 ] . |
| 23 | The SNM had announced on Aug. 6 that it had agreed to join forces with two other guerrilla movements , the United Somali Congress and the Somali Patriotic Movement , in order to overthrow Barre . |
| 24 | Although a Jordanian government statement issued on Sept. 23 said that there was no intention of expelling Saudi diplomats , a Foreign Ministry spokeman confirmed on Sept. 25 that it had been decided to recall the ambassador in protest against the expulsions . |
| 25 | The US Defence Department ( Pentagon ) confirmed on July 29 that it had agreed to sell arms , including laser-guided bombs , worth US$365,000,000 to Saudi Arabia , a move following the announcement by the Pentagon in early July of plans to sell the kingdom $473,000,000 worth of army jeeps and aircraft support services . |
| 26 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | In order to protect its position , the UK government announced on Sept. 3 that it intended to borrow an amount equivalent to 10,000 million European currency units ( US$1.00=ECU1.434 at that stage ) in currencies which would be sold for sterling through the foreign exchange market in addition to any normal market intervention . |
| 28 | Japan 's seventh-largest bank , Tokai Bank Ltd , announced on July 27 that it had uncovered a 63,000 million yen ( $450 million ) fraud involving deposit certificates . |
| 29 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 30 | However , Inravision Television in Bogotá reported on Aug. 13 that it had received a faxed message from the cartel which stated that the truce would remain in force . |