Example sentences of "[was/were] announced that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was announced that laws were being drafted on borders , on economic and foreign policy , and on the implementation of independence . |
| 2 | It was announced that Hurd and Major would again be nominating and seconding her candidature . |
| 3 | On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 4 | At the end of the meeting , it was announced that donors had pledged US$1,200 million in aid for 1991 . |
| 5 | It was announced that Mrs Ann Lucas has resigned as Minutes Secretary since her new job makes it difficult for her to travel from Aberystwyth for committee meetings . |
| 6 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 7 | The following month it was announced that Dulles would specialise on matters concerning the peace treaty and Truman approved arrangements for Dulles to visit Japan and Korea in June in order to confer with MacArthur and the Japanese government . |
| 8 | Consequently , there was some shock but no great surprise when on 11 March it was announced that Taurus — after more than a decade of planning and more than £400m in development costs — was to be scrapped . |
| 9 | On June 23 it was announced that Qatar had signed a defence pact with the USA , becoming the third state in the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) to do so after Kuwait and Bahrain ; an official said that the agreement ruled out any intervention in Qatar 's internal affairs and was in line with GCC policy . |
| 10 | In November it was announced that exports of coffee — of which Angola was the fourth largest producer in the world before independence — were less than half those expected . |
| 11 | On Nov. 7 it was announced that Lithuania and Bulgaria had signed a trade and most-favoured nation treaty in Sofia . |
| 12 | Last month it was announced that Britain will get its first new-wave trams in 1991 . |
| 13 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 14 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 15 | He transformed the famous estate into one of the most modern training complexes in the world , but in November 1986 it was announced that Sangster and Dickinson were to part company , and the trainer took his skills to the USA . |
| 16 | It was announced that AMK , the Passfield based company , have retained the contract for the 250 Service known as the Liphook Shuttle and will continue to operate the current timetable . |
| 17 | In late July it was announced that Morocco 's air force was to be upgraded through the purchase of 20 F-16 fighter aircraft , worth in total US$250,000,000 , and drawn from United States air force stocks . |
| 18 | On Aug. 31 , it was announced that Tudjman had appointed Ivan Milas as another Deputy Premier and Smiljo Sokol as Government Minister , and that Goran Radin was being replaced as Government Secretary by Jurica Malcic . |
| 19 | The importance of such links was stressed by Yeltsin during his visit to the USA ( on June 18-21 — see above ) and on June 23 it was announced that Russia was to have its own counsellor in the Soviet embassy in Washington and to have its own representative at the Soviet UN mission . |
| 20 | An inquiry into the killing of over 50 striking workers in Gdansk in December 1970 led in December 1990 to the arrest of three generals and five colonels , and in the same month it was announced that investigations were being held into the introduction of martial law in 1981 . |
| 21 | On 9 October , it was announced that Lord Swinton , a leading Conservative and former minister-resident in West Africa , would be made Minister of Civil Aviation . |
| 22 | Before the next race , the Canadian Grand Prix , it was announced that Hunt had been stripped of his points from the British Grand Prix , Hunt , and the McLaren team , were incensed by the decision and went out and won the Canadian and US Grands Prix ( East ) in successive weeks . |
| 23 | On Nov. 14 it was announced that Patrick Buchanan , a syndicated columnist and former speechwriter for President Nixon , would probably enter the New Hampshire primary on an " America First " platform calling for an isolationist foreign policy and anti-government , anti-tax domestic policies . |
| 24 | Shares of its Hong Kong subsidiary were suspended , and after the market closed it was announced that Polly may buy the 30 per cent of the company it does not already own . |
| 25 | It was announced that William Joyce had been appointed Deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 26 | On Nov. 19 it was announced that Yeltsin had appointed Russia 's Deputy Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozlovsky , as special representative to the USA . |
| 27 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 28 | During his visit it was announced that talks on border and territorial disputes would be held in Beijing in November . |
| 29 | It was announced that HCIMA and Kennedy Woodward Allen , London based chartered surveyors and architects , would be working together to advise and assist HCIMA members on matters of property and construction , as part of the association 's membership services programme . |
| 30 | It was announced that HCIMA was to lead a major industry initiative to consider a Quality assurance programme designed specifically for the industry . |