Example sentences of "[noun prp] announced [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 6 | At the same time , Kabi Pharmacia announced that it wanted to form a strategic alliance with Zambon , the Italian pharmaceutical group . |
| 7 | In July , the CEGB announced that it proposed to retrofit three 2000 MW power stations with FGD between 1988 and 1997 . |
| 8 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In one of the bloodiest weeks in its history , the BBC announced that it intended to cut jobs by more than 1,000 . |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On April 24 ( the final day of the Taiwanese National Assembly session ) China announced that it had stopped its " loudspeaker war " with Taiwan . |
| 14 | On Feb. 29 Sweden announced that it had rejected a Libyan request made earlier in February via UN officials for the two Libyans , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to be tried in Sweden . |
| 15 | In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold , estimating the reserves at £300 million . |
| 16 | At the same time , Cincom announced that it has had to delay shipments of the new database until March 1993 — it had originally slated October as a release date . |
| 17 | Airtours announced that it had signed contracts with suppliers which quantified the savings from a merger at over £20 million a year . |
| 18 | Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year . |
| 19 | Only this week , Whitbread announced that it had won the franchise to operate TGI Friday 's restaurants in Canada , Washington State and Oregon . |
| 20 | The dispute had begun in April 1989 when Pittston announced that it intended to cut costs by withdrawing from the Association of Coalmine Operators , the body responsible for negotiating labour contracts with the UMW on an industry-wide basis and for providing health and pension benefits . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 23 | 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 . |