Example sentences of "[vb past] that it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Airtours announced that it had signed contracts with suppliers which quantified the savings from a merger at over £20 million a year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 10 | On Aug. 5 the government announced that it had provided UN inspectors details of its " biological research for military purposes " , but stressed that " there is positively no biological activity for ammunition or weapons purposes " . |
| 11 | In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold , estimating the reserves at £300 million . |
| 12 | After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid . |
| 13 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 14 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 15 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 16 | LASMO plc today announced that it has issued US$250 million of perpetual cumulative dollar preference shares in the US public market , with a gross dividend of 10 per cent . |
| 17 | In one of the bloodiest weeks in its history , the BBC announced that it intended to cut jobs by more than 1,000 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The FAO forestry department admitted that it has had problems meeting demand , which had far exceeded expectations . |
| 20 | The Committee for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity ( CRII-RAD ) revealed that it had found traces of plutonium at the dump . |
| 21 | The report added that it had cost Iran between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 to provide services for the refugees . |
| 22 | Cherwell district council estimated that it had lost £200,000 in poll tax revenue due from the wives of US servicemen . |
| 23 | Mission scientists stated that it had detected traces of water , carbon , hydrogen and metals in Grigg-Skjellerup , providing further clues as to how the solar system was formed approximately 4,500 million years previously . |
| 24 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 25 | A Gosteleradio statement declared that it had taken action after discovering that in September 1990 Interfax had registered as an independent agency without notifying Radio Moscow , but had persisted in using Radio Moscow facilities . |
| 26 | A 50-day strike in the automobile industry ended on Aug. 1 , when Autolatina , the Brazilian holding company for the Ford and Volkswagen car manufacturers , claimed that it had lost sales worth over US$300 million . |
| 27 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 28 | Whereas the pending liability suit against the airline depended on the theory that the bomb had penetrated Pan Am 's security , the Aviv report indicated that it had circumvented Pan Am 's security . |
| 29 | The Senate panel decided that it wanted to question Fiers and George concerning whether they had passed the information on to Gates . |
| 30 | In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " . |