Example sentences of "announce [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 3 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 4 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 5 | Premadasa on Aug. 30 countered an attempt in Parliament to impeach him , by announcing that he was suspending Parliament until Sept. 24 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Julio Strassera , who had been the chief prosecutor at the original " dirty war " trials in 1985 , announced that he was resigning in protest as Argentina 's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission . |
| 8 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 9 | Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state . |
| 10 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 11 | He alleged that Gamsakhurdia was behind the raid on the camp , and announced that he was forming a political party to combat the " fascism " of Gamsakhurdia 's Georgia government . |
| 12 | On Aug. 26 Razanamasy announced that he was forming a 24-member government which included two senior military officers , most ministers being " unknown " technocrats . |
| 13 | On April 18 , before leaving on official visits to European capitals , de Klerk announced that he was calling an all-party " peace summit " of political , community , church and business leaders on May 24 and 25 to seek an end to township violence . |
| 14 | Instead he announced that he was to lead a National Government . |
| 15 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 16 | Erica and Edward had their usual disagreement , and Edward announced that he was leaving next day on more unspecified scientific business . |
| 17 | Although O'Keefe announced that he was taking no action against Howard , he emphasized a variety of measures which were being adopted in order to improve naval attitudes towards women and to facilitate future investigations of such incidents . |
| 18 | Bush also announced that he was ordering the immediate lifting of the alert status of all strategic bombers and had directed their weapons to be put in storage . |
| 19 | In his inaugural speech as president , Nyerere announced that he was setting up an entirely new ministry , that of National Culture and Youth . |
| 20 | Mulroney , however , professed himself still optimistic that the Accord would succeed and announced that he was commissioning Lowell Murray , the Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations , as a special Meech Lake emissary . |
| 21 | Kaunda said that his country 's experience of multiparty politics — from independence in 1964 to the prohibition of opposition parties in 1973 — had been " a sad one " , but predicted an optimistic future for Zambian democracy and announced that he was looking forward to " a good fight " in elections scheduled for October 1992 . |
| 22 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 23 | Early in March Mr Schuller announced that he was bringing a Seattle minister , the Rev Bruce Larson , to Garden Grove as his ‘ co-pilot ’ . |
| 24 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 25 | On the following day Perot announced that he was abandoning his campaign . |
| 26 | Wide-eyed and dazzled from his epiphany , Oldfield announced that he was to marry the daughter of his Exegesis instructor and Richard must be best man . |
| 27 | The Constitution allowed the Governor-General no discretion over this , but Eri announced that he was reinstating Diro in his ministerial and parliamentary posts , claiming that to dismiss him would provoke immense social and political upheaval . |
| 28 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 29 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 30 | On the third evening after his return from the castle , he suddenly announced that he was going back to Kinghorn . |