Example sentences of "announce [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan. 27 USC broadcasts statement on Radio Mogadishu announcing that it had taken over the government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Finland on May 6 announced that it had decided to purchase 64 US F/A-18 Hornet interceptor aircraft in preference to ex-Soviet , French or Swedish models to modernize its air force by the end of the century . |
| 4 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 7 | On 15th July the company announced that it had received elections accepting the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative from the holders of 177,631,159 ordinary shares in Johnson Matthey . |
| 8 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 9 | On April 24 ( the final day of the Taiwanese National Assembly session ) China announced that it had stopped its " loudspeaker war " with Taiwan . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 13 | Ratsiraka 's concessions followed seven weeks of strikes and demonstrations organized by the opposition Comité de forces vives , a coalition of 16 opposition parties , which on June 21 announced that it had formed a " provisional government " [ see p. 38277 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | In combination with the raids , the Israeli Army announced that it had increased the number of soldiers deployed in the West Bank by 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The Ladbroke Group announced that it had acquired the 505 room Dom Hotel in Berlin , one of East Germany 's most prestigious hotels , as the Berlin Hilton . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In a series of subsequent , apparently conciliatory , gestures reported on Dec. 16 , Kurdish leaders agreed to appoint an inquiry into the alleged massacre of 60 Iraqi soldiers in October [ see p. 38548 ] after the government announced that it had lifted restrictions on the acquisition of property by Kurds in the oil-producing town of Kirkuk and issued a decree exempting Kurds from swearing allegiance to the ruling Ba'ath Party . |
| 24 | Only this week , Whitbread announced that it had won the franchise to operate TGI Friday 's restaurants in Canada , Washington State and Oregon . |
| 25 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | [ 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 . |