Example sentences of "announced [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed .
2 With very poor timing , Posi announced that her perceptors showed a Famlio gunship sliding by within visual range of the Valve .
3 Two days ago the organisers of the NM English Open , to be played from August 16-19 at The Belfry , announced that their prize money would be increased from £250,000 to £400,000 .
4 At the close of the hearing before the Judicial Committee Lord Templeman announced that their Lordships would advise that the petitioner should be granted special leave to appeal for reasons to be delivered later .
5 At the close of the hearing before the Judicial Committee Lord Keith of Kinkel announced that their Lordships would advise that the appeal should be dismissed for reasons to be delivered later .
6 In a joint statement issued on Sept. 25 Meyer and Ramaphosa announced that their talks had progressed sufficiently to allow President de Klerk and Mandela to meet the following day .
7 He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots .
8 On 23 April 1991 the Government announced that they intend to replace the community charge with a new ‘ council tax ’ .
9 At the beginning of March his council announced that they had set the charge at £400 .
10 In your May issue you carried a letter from two climbers from Tunbridge Wells who announced that they had negotiated a season ticket agreement for users of High Rocks .
11 Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death .
12 Students at the University of Hong Kong announced that they would be organising groups in which students could be ‘ educated in concepts of democracy and freedom ’ .
13 In April 1990 Starkist Seafood , the world 's largest tuna canner with 35 per cent of the huge US market , announced that they would no longer buy tuna which had been caught by encircling dolphins .
14 A Texan jury on December 20th convicted Don ‘ Big Daddy ’ Dixon for using his bank as a personal piggy-bank ; the next day prosecutors announced that they had squeezed a guilty plea from Edwin ‘ Fast Eddie ’ McBirney , who admitted to artful manipulation of deposits at Sunbelt Savings Association , the largest S&L ever to fail in Texas .
15 They were hit early on , and on January 21st the allies announced that they were shifting more of their attacks to the dug-in ground forces .
16 Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment .
17 Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) .
18 Her chances received a considerable boost when two other possible contenders for the deputy leadership , Mr Brown and Mr Tony Blair ( Employment ) announced that they were backing her .
19 Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter .
20 Last week a team from Boston 's children 's hospital announced that they had , for the first time , used the treatment to halt a ‘ graft-versus-host ’ attack that was actually in progress .
21 The two sides announced that they had settled out of court .
22 They closed into a scrum and after much teeth-sucking and muttering announced that they 'd like to have a new biopsy performed on the splendid , raised node on my thigh .
23 In 1989 , Lloyds Bank , the firm 's landlords in Newport , announced that they did not wish to renew the lease on the Newport office .
24 The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London .
25 One day later the Ringaskiddy residents announced that they intended going to the High Court to seek an order enforcing the asbestos dumping regulations .
26 The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions .
27 A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together .
28 However , to the rescue comes their driver , an enterprising Swiss chap who announced that they were not to worry , he had a friend who lived nearby who could help them out .
29 Then , only two months ago , Peter Brooke himself announced that they were to have no purchase grants as such , but that these were now merged with the vote which pays for running expenses .
30 In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics .
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