Example sentences of "[num] [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 2 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 3 | The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe . |
| 4 | The UN had announced on Sept. 30 that it was suspending its humanitarian operations in southern Sudan . |
| 5 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 6 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 7 | The government confirmed on April 22 that it was pursuing a policy of devaluing the yuan in small , frequent steps , in an effort to boost exports and curb imports . |
| 8 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 9 | The EMD also announced on Dec. 12 that it was dissolving P-27 after the weekly paper Weltwoche revealed the identity of its head . |
| 10 | Standard Chartered said on June 12 that it was launching criminal proceedings in India to recover an estimated US$299,800,000 lost in the securities scandal . |
| 11 | The odds can not be far from 50/50 that you are reading these words through glass lenses . |
| 12 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 13 | In a move virtually unprecedented among Gulf states , the government announced on July 2 that it was amending its trade laws to allow the establishment of wholly foreign-owned companies . |
| 14 | Rafsanjani announced on Sept. 2 that he was resigning from his post of acting Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief as he was now too busy with his presidential functions . |
| 15 | NOTICE To : Smith & Jones ( Contracts ) Limited , whose registered office is situate at Coldharbour Road , Thames Marshes , Essex WHEREAS ( 1 ) You are justly and truly indebted in the sum of £1250 to Robinson Bros Ltd trading as Go Fast Transport whose registered office is situate at Cornmarket Chambers Ipswich Suffolk more particularly in respect of transport costs for the quick delivery of fragile machine equipment and related warehousing costs ( 2 ) By Section 517 ( 1 ) ( f ) of the Companies Act 1985 it is provided that a company may be wound up by the court if the company is unable to pay its debts ( exceeding £750 ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you pursuant to Section 518(1) ( a ) of the Companies Act 1985 that you are required to pay the said sum of £1250 to Go Fast Transport ( GFT ) not later than 3 weeks from tomorrow 's date AND that if you neglect to pay the said sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of GFT an application will be made to the court for your winding up by petition presented by GFT under the provisions of Section 519 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 16 | Because of this , boxing remained the major sporting area for blacks right up to and beyond the World War II period , though it was not until 1948 that they were allowed to contest a British title . |
| 17 | New Zealand police said on Nov. 26 that they were seeking extradition of an alleged French secret agent , Gerald Andries , who had been arrested in Basel , Switzerland , on a warrant issued in New Zealand on charges of murder and conspiracy . |
| 18 | President Abdou Diouf announced on April 7 that he was appointing the president ( Speaker ) of the National Assembly , Habib Thiam , as Prime Minister , a post which had been in abeyance since 1983 , shortly after Thiam 's removal from it [ see p. 32180 ] . |
| 19 | Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party . |
| 20 | Nevertheless Krebs AG announced on March 10 that it was withdrawing from the project at the request of the Swiss government . |
| 21 | Because the chances are that because you know more about the subject than the general reporter , to whom — this may be to you the most important part of the day , most important story of your day , to him it might be only one of four , five or six that they 're doing . |
| 22 | Erm it does n't look really as though out of , certainly out of this six that we 're going to get three . |
| 23 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 24 | The European Commission announced on July 31 that it was dropping legal action against the United Kingdom in five out of seven cases where UK plans had been deemed to infringe EC environmental assessment directives . |
| 25 | The 22nd meeting of the seventh standing committee of the National People 's Congress ( legislature ) on Oct. 25 was expected to approve a proposal that China accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , following Premier Li Peng 's announcement in August of China 's acceptance of the treaty ; however Japan 's Kyodo News Service reported on Oct. 31 that it was agreed only to hold further discussions [ see also p. 38340 ] . |
| 26 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) announced on Feb. 21 that it was allocating $1,000,000 in emergency funds for the refugees , which it estimated now totalled at least 100,000 and were crossing the border at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 27 | On April 8 Brazil re-opened coffee exports for registration , after announcing on March 21 that it was suspending sales on international coffee markets until it had determined its position with regard to a new International Coffee Agreement . |
| 28 | He was made aware of his impending appointment about the time of Hunt 's report , but it was not until 1st January , 1859 that he was sent his official letter of appointment . |
| 29 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 30 | It was during World War II that she was to face her greatest challenge when Sark , with the other Channel Islands , was occupied by the Germans in July 1940 . |