Example sentences of "announce that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing that the company would be taking a $6,000m charge with its fourth quarter figures to cover 25,000 more voluntary redundancies and plant closures , mainly in the mainframe and disk drive businesses , and a $1,000m cut in research and development spending and an unspecified bigger cut in capital investment , chairman John Akers warned that while cash flow remains strong , current earnings expectations make the company unsure of its ability to maintain the dividend at current levels . |
| 2 | Roby was worried that through linking the four Iranians to the British hostages , the Iranian government was preparing the ground for announcing that the Britons , too , were dead . |
| 3 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 4 | And that is the significance of James Baker 's speech announcing that the United States would take responsibility for rebuilding Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 5 | Intense negotiations between both sides and Onusal had produced a breakthrough on June 15 , when the government conceded a key FMLN demand , announcing that the laws which had created the extreme right-wing paramilitary National Guard and Treasury Police would be repealed by the National Assembly . |
| 6 | On March 29 the Cabinet approved the suspension of municipal and provincial councils , announcing that the measure would affect 397 out of the country 's 1,541 municipalities , and 14 of its 48 provinces . |
| 7 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 8 | Today , announcing that the bodies will be flown back to Wiltshire base tomorrow , the station commander spoke of the sacrifice the men had made . |
| 9 | I have done so with the earnest endeavour to be able to speak to that brief , but I have to start by declaring failure and announcing that the results have been negative . |
| 10 | The defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind wasted no time in announcing that the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife will be sold to a private company next year . |
| 11 | Although recognising that AEA needed to be proactive in approaching possible privatisation many thought ‘ Why change now , whilst announcing that the BZW report had yet to be considered by DTI . ’ |
| 12 | The draft platform formed the basis of Gorbachev 's opening report to the plenum , but he began by announcing that the politburo was proposing to bring forward the 28th CPSU congress from October to late June or early July , to be preceded by a " report-and-election campaign " during which " overdue personnel issues will be resolved and new elected party bodies will be formed " . |
| 13 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 14 | The article in Vanguard announcing the ‘ pro-Zionist ’ position was preceded , in the previous issue , by an editorial announcing that the magazine would be writing directly on ‘ our policies concerning Judaism , Zionism and the Jewish people ’ ( November/December 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Yet even before that special had run , SLOA secretary Bernard Staite was announcing that the Pullmans would form the basis of a new series of special charter trains , operating during the summer months with diesel and electric haulage , under the title Pullman Scenic Land Cruises . |
| 16 | A rectangle of cardboard hung on the door announcing that the shop was due to open at nine o'clock . |
| 17 | FIFA announced that the country , exiled for 28 years , would replace Sao Tome in Africa Group D. |
| 18 | On June 5 the Army Council announced that the country 's armed forces would be reduced by an unspecified amount ; the army was believed to number more than 100,000 , and the World Bank and international aid donors had frequently called for reductions . |
| 19 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 20 | In July 1957 , Sandys announced that the headquarters in Cyprus would become GHQ Near East . |
| 21 | On Jan. 15 the Presidency of the European Communities ( EC ) announced that the EC and its member states had decided to recognize Croatia and Slovenia as independent states . |
| 22 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |
| 23 | ( On July 31 Diestel announced that the freedom of 33,000 East German political prisoners had been brought by West Germany since 1964 initially at a price of around DM40,000 each and since the late 1970s at a price of DM95,847 . ) |
| 24 | The court announced that the charges against Christer Pettersson , a social outcast with a history of manslaughter and drugs offences , did not contain enough evidence for a guilty verdict . |
| 25 | A report on June 27 stated that signatures were being collected insisting on the cancellation of its registration , but on the following day the Council of Ministers announced that the charges against the MRF were groundless . |
| 26 | They announced that the dialogue should begin on June 8 and that elections for the new Congress should be held on Nov. 8 . |
| 27 | Histadrut ( trades union ) leaders announced that the signing of a new national wage agreement with manufacturers and public-sector employees would be virtually impossible given the new plan 's effective erosion of the wage-price-index link . |
| 28 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 29 | In December 1986 Lord Crickhowell announced that the plans to transform the Cardiff docklands would be taken forward by an urban development corporation — Cardiff Bay development corporation — established specifically for that task . |
| 30 | On Jan. 4 Bashir announced that the parliament would consist of 300 members , including all 11 members of the RCC , a number of RCC advisers , the governors of the country 's nine states , and representatives of the trade unions and the army . |