Example sentences of "announce [that] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 2 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 3 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 5 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 6 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 7 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 8 | This week ITV announced that it is dropping the God slot due to lack of interest . |
| 9 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 10 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 11 | Transforming at a stroke the state of its balance sheet , Philips Electronics NV on Friday announced that it is to sell its 35% stake in the Japan-based Matsushita Electronics Corp to its partner in the venture , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for a whopping $1,600m . |
| 12 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 13 | Tarmac announced that it is closing down four plants and reducing production , which will lead to 300 job losses . |
| 14 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 15 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 16 | Recently it announced that it is to begin testing all personal computers assembled in Russia from imported components . |
| 17 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 18 | Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht . |
| 19 | Obviously a married woman ca n't just get up from her chair at that time of the evening and announce that she 's going out . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher will today announce that she is to double the British contribution of £3 million to the UN Environment Project in Nairobi and give new money to tropical rain forest schemes . |
| 21 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 22 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 23 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 24 | JELLO BIAFRA has announced that he 's considering issuing BODY COUNT 's ‘ Cop Killer ’ on his own Alternative Tentacles label . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the Chairman of Hereford United has announced that he 's to resign . |
| 26 | JIM HICKEY has announced that he is to leave his post as director of Filmhouse in Edinburgh to pursue a career in film-making . |
| 27 | Mr Bryan Gould , the party 's environment spokesman , has already announced that he is standing for both the leadership and deputy leadership . |
| 28 | And by the time this magazine goes to press Mr Lang is expected to have announced that he is rejecting the Countryside Commission for Scotland 's detailed proposals for four Scottish national parks in Glen Coe and Ben Nevis , Loch Lomond , the Cairngorms and Wester Ross . |
| 29 | STOP PRESS Eric has today announced that he is joining Icelandic Second Division side Fram Reykjavik . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this week , IBM has announced that it is lopping $1,000m off its research and development budget , and indicated that turnover will slip back below $60,000m … |