Example sentences of "announce the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this year , the Government announced the abolition of the poll tax and the introduction of the council tax . |
| 2 | McDonald 's finally bowed to consumer pressure and announced the abolition of the polystyrene boxes that contain its hamburgers . |
| 3 | In 1988 , Action for Cities announced the development of a Safer Cities scheme , designed to reduce urban crime . |
| 4 | Researchers at Edinburgh University 's Centre for Speech Technology yesterday announced the development of software to convert text into speech electronically in all nine official European Community languages , and said it would create quality-controlled pronunciation dictionaries of all Community city , town , street , family and product names in machine-readable form . |
| 5 | On Aug. 10 the United Kingdom government announced the banning of the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) , with effect from midnight . |
| 6 | After calling an extraordinary Cabinet meeting as the extent of his defeat became clear , Mazowiecki announced the resignation of his government . |
| 7 | On Dec. 1 a Vatican spokesman announced the resignation of the Secretary of State of the Roman Curia since 1979 , Cardinal Agostino Casaroli . |
| 8 | In November the Prime Minister announced the resignation , with effect from Jan. 31 , 1991 , of Attorney General Saul Froomkin for " personal reasons " . |
| 9 | President Omar Bongo announced the resignation of Prime Minister Casimir Oye Mba 's second government on June 7 and called on opposition parties to join a " government of national consensus " . |
| 10 | Outgoing Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson announced the resignation of his government on Sept. 16 . |
| 11 | Snegur announced the resignation of all except four of the government , the Security , Defence and Interior ministers being three of those staying on . |
| 12 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 13 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 14 | Gilt-edged prices continued to rise strongly , all three tranchettes were quickly sold out and , shortly afterwards , the Bank announced the issue of a much larger tap stock : £1 billion of 8 ½%; Treasury 2007 . |
| 15 | Camel Lairds is now owned by B S E L , who two and a half years ago announced the run down of Camel Lairds unless another buyer was found . |
| 16 | The same sort of thing is true of ( 17 ) — ( 20 ) below : ( 17 ) By 1853 , the new partnership announced the precision vernier calliper as the first fruit of their joint efforts . |
| 17 | The United States government said in response to the coup that it would suspend some US$85,000,000 in military and economic aid ; France also announced the cut-off of $38,000,000 in aid , and European Community aid of $150,000,000 was expected to be suspended . |
| 18 | Mr de Klerk also announced the release of Oscar Mpheta , a legendary figure in the black trade union movement who , at 80 , is the country 's oldest political prisoner . |
| 19 | The division also announced the release of version 6.0 upgrades for its X Terminal range . |
| 20 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 21 | Mitchell also announced the release of 7,000 acres of state-owned land to form 1,500 smallholdings as part of the government 's land distribution programme . |
| 22 | On Aug. 23 , the eve of the resumption of peace process negotiations , the Israeli Prime Minister 's office announced the release of 800 Palestinian prisoners . |
| 23 | I announced the titles of the textbooks we would be using . |
| 24 | President Ramiz Alia also on Dec. 11 announced the removal of five well-known opponents of reform from the 11-member politburo of the ruling communist Party of Labour ( PLA ) , and instructed the Prime Minister , Adil Carcani , to prepare a government reshuffle [ see below ] . |
| 25 | Following the Paris meeting Baker announced the removal of obstacles to visits to Vietnam by US citizens and the removal of the travel restrictions on Vietnamese diplomats at the UN in New York . |
| 26 | Salford yesterday announced the signing of David Fell , a 23-year-old centre from the Orrell rugby union club , on a £40,000 contract . |
| 27 | Paul O'Neill , a 21-year-old wing from Leigh Miners , has signed professional at the Willows , while Swinton announced the signing of Vince McCue , a 23-year-old centre from New Zealand . |
| 28 | On January 24th they announced the signing of the ‘ Honiara accord ’ . |
| 29 | CGI Informatique SA announced the signing of two new contracts for its stock and share management software , Simbase , with Banque de Neuflize Schlumberger Mallet and Paribas Suisse : the Banque NSM , a subsidiary of ABN Amro Bank , Europe 's sixth largest banking group , chose Simbase to remake its stock and share processing system ; Paribas Suisse , a subsidiary of Groupe Paribas , purchased the Simbase modules Share Operations and Portfolio Coupons and Movements . |
| 30 | The company also announced the signing of a joint agreement with Steve Jobs ' NeXT Inc to develop a database application programming interface between White Cross servers and Next workstations , due mid-1993 . |