Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] that [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 2 | It was announced on March 22 that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) would be asked to help in returning 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries with which Pretoria did not have diplomatic relations . |
| 3 | It was announced on March 30 that the USSR Supreme Soviet had set up a USSR Union Republican State Committee for the Nationalities Question " to improve state administration in the sphere of national development and inter-ethnic relations " . |
| 4 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 5 | It was announced on Jan. 22 that the United Kingdom was to return gold worth £90,000,000 ( US$160 million ) which had been deposited at the Bank of England before the annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union in 1940 . |
| 6 | Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi said on Jan. 22 that the USA was also to provide Israel with battle reports , logistical information and instantaneous " real-time " satellite reconnaissance data under a " joint co-ordination apparatus " . |
| 7 | Voice of Palestine radio reported on Jan. 21 that the PDR 's objectives included " the right to self-determination and the setting up of an independent state led by the PLO " . |
| 8 | It is at once clear from Figure 5.2 that the PFM graph is a different shape from those of the three planets , which are broadly similar to each other . |
| 9 | United States President George Bush reportedly assured President Virgilo Barco Vargas by telephone on Jan. 11 that the USA would never take any action against drug trafficking on Colombian territory " without the full consent of the government of Bogotá " . |
| 10 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of Feb. 2 , a United States official confirmed on Jan. 29 that the USA had cut its grant aid to Yemen for fiscal 1990/91 from US$20,500,000 to $2,900,000 , and that " everything is on hold " . |
| 11 | To begin with , it is clear from chapter 1 that the CAPM does not require any comparison between the divisional risks and the risk of the corporate group as a whole . |
| 12 | Nzo had said on the ANC 's 78th anniversary on Jan. 8 that the ANC would continue its armed struggle , and would only participate in any process of negotiations if it enjoyed equal political opportunities with all other participants . |
| 13 | Confirmation by Brucan on Jan. 23 that the NSF would field candidates in the forthcoming elections ( rescheduled to May 20 ) brought around 2,000 demonstrators back to Victory Square on Jan. 24 . |
| 14 | The position of the UK forces in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf area generally was that together with the armed forces of Kuwait and other coalition partners they were engaged in hostilities against Iraq under the authority of the UN Security Council ; Major specifically explained in Parliament on Jan. 28 that the UK was not in a state of war with Iraq . |
| 15 | Diepgen declared on Jan. 24 that the Berlin CDU and SPD would abstain in a Bundesrat vote where their positions were opposed . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the Winchester bypass is one of the most dangerous pieces of road in the country ? |
| 17 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 18 | The Rompress news agency reported on March 10 that the NSF had received 33.6 per cent of votes cast in the local polls as compared with 24.3 per cent for the Democratic Convention , an alliance of opposition parties . |
| 19 | US President George Bush said on July 2 that the USA had completed its promised withdrawal of all ground and naval tactical nuclear weapons from bases around the world in keeping with a pledge made in September 1991 [ see pp. 38457-58 ] . |
| 20 | It was announced on July 2 that the United Kingdom group British Gas PLC , together with Agip , the oil subsidiary of the Italian state-owned energy and chemicals group ENI , had won exclusive negotiation rights over the development of the Karachaganak oil and gas field in north-west Kazakhstan . |
| 21 | UN officials confirmed on July 30 that the UN had cut its 1991 rehabilitation budget for Afghanistan from US$136,000,000 to $105,000,000 . |
| 22 | It was announced on Sept. 30 that the Exxon Corporation had reached final agreement with the Alaskan and US federal governments on a criminal fine of US$150,000,000 ( $25,000,000 of which was suspended ) and damage payments resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 . |
| 23 | US Secretary of State James Baker announced on Aug. 12 that the USA had received a formal request from the deposed Kuwaiti government to enforce UN sanctions under the self-defence article ( Article 51 ) of the UN Charter . |
| 24 | Speaking on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd said on Sept. 22 that the EC would support Boutros-Ghali 's proposal for a peacekeeping reserve fund , adding that at end-August EC member countries had provided 40 per cent of contributions collected for various peacekeeping operations since the end of the last General Assembly . |
| 25 | On Sept. 18 there was pointed criticism from some pro-Israeli Democrats over the extent of proposed US arms sales to Saudi Arabia [ see above ] , while US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South-East Asian Affairs John Kelly came under attack before the House foreign affairs committee for the lack of a clear signal to Iraq prior to Aug. 2 that the US would not tolerate any invasion of Kuwait . |
| 26 | It was announced on Sept. 26 that the USA was to withdraw 40,000 troops from western Europe over the next 12 months . |
| 27 | The UK ambassador in Paris lodged protests with the French government on Sept. 7 and the UK Attorney General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , warned on Sept. 10 that the UK might take France to the European Court of Justice if attacks on lorries continued . |
| 28 | It had been reported on July 7 that a UN team had overseen the destruction of 61 Iraqi missiles and 10 mobile launchers . |
| 29 | US President Bush announced in January 1991 that the USA would release US$42,500,000 in military aid , half of the allocation projected for fiscal 1991 , following the murder , allegedly by the FMLN , of three United States military advisers [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 30 | Republic of Algeria radio reported on Aug. 7 that the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian " parliament in exile " ) would convene in Algiers in September to " look into ways of dealing with the new peace initiative " . |