Example sentences of "announced [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open . |
| 2 | IBM also announced first fruits of other Hollywood alliance , adding integrated digital video and audio input-output and factor Moving Pictures Experts Group digital video and audio compression to the Power Visualisation System . |
| 3 | James was his brother 's obvious successor in both posts , but Archibald announced first that for the moment he would himself retain control of the Scottish survey and second that he would not sanction the holding of the Murchison chair by any survey geologist . |
| 4 | Group profits before tax for the first six months of the year soared by 46 per cent but the final result to 30 June , announced last week , showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per cent to £1.28m compared to earlier City predictions of £1.4m-plus . |
| 5 | Extensions to Belfast 's port facilities and to its harbour airport , announced last week , must encroach further on the mudflats at Belfast Lough , Alison McCloy , of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , warned in a lecture . |
| 6 | In its original thinking for the clearing house scheme , announced last July , the Exchange intended that a management agreement will exist between the clearing house and itself for the use of the Exchange 's existing and projected settlement services . |
| 7 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 8 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Socialist Party , one of the four smaller parties represented in the assembly , announced last night that it would also be backing Mr Havel 's candidacy . |
| 10 | The Home Office announced last night that two Iranians arrested on Friday under the Prevention of Terrorism Act are to be deported . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most of the reorganisation charges incurred in the efficiency drive announced last month , which will prune 3,000 jobs , are also likely to appear in the next accounts . |
| 13 | Genzyme announced last week that Ceredase , its drug for Gaucher disease , is being used in Britain for the first time in 10 patients seriously ill with the rare and potentially fatal inherited disease . |
| 14 | Spinrad announced last week that his team had found two further galaxies with a red-shift greater than I ( bringing the total to five ) . |
| 15 | The Department of Transport announced last month that low volume production cars will be exempt from the EC Type Approval provisions , and once the appropriate legislation is in place in this country , the way will be clear for Caterham to produce fully built cars . |
| 16 | MICHAEL Jackson 's world tour is back on , the singer announced last night . |
| 17 | THE Queen will not pay tax despite public demands , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced last night . |
| 18 | Following questions in Parliament , the Department of Trade and Industry announced last October that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading UK export controls , and would be restricted . |
| 19 | STRUGGLING Municipal Mutual Insurance , which covers 90 per cent of local councils , announced last night that it is resuming full payment of claims . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 21 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 22 | Land 's End announced last autumn that bolted abseil points and fixed gear would be placed in the interests of conservation and safety . |
| 23 | Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year . |
| 24 | The IBM communications specialist announced last month its intended expansion into Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching , wireless local networks and Unix communications markets . |
| 25 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 26 | The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year . |
| 27 | On top of that , Telecom Finland announced last month that it is adopting Ionica 's technology . |
| 28 | After the Scottish secretary , Ian Lang , announced last week that he would consider ‘ the privatisation option ’ for the shipping company linking the mainland with 23 islands off Scotland 's west coast , they made their opposition plain . |
| 29 | To mark the anniversary of the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc alliance one year ago ( UX No 354 ) , IBM and Motorola announced last week that they had completed the design and fabrication of their first complete PowerPC RISC chip . |
| 30 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |