Example sentences of "[noun pl] announce [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are not the truly appalling unemployment figures announced today — an increase of more than 53,000 , taking the unemployment total to more than 2,600,000 , even leaving out the thousands of job losses announced during the present month — ample proof that the Government 's incompetent economic policies are certainly not working , but are causing severe hurt ? |
| 2 | Huge job losses announced in the past week at car giant Ford , where 2,100 workers will be made redundant , and at British Aerospace , which is cutting 2,300 jobs , have not even started to feed into the official figures yet . |
| 3 | Many of the 900 General Improvement Areas announced in the 1969–73 period were ‘ urban rooms ’ on the Buchanan principle , though their size was small and not all of the levels of the road hierarchy were present . |
| 4 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 5 | The tax and royalty changes announced in the 1983 budget brought a change of atmosphere with a significant increase in new developments and in exploration and appraisal drilling . |
| 6 | Worrying delays and cost increases emerged soon after construction began in January 1988 and Eurotunnel was forced into lengthy negotiations with Transmanche Link which resulted in significant management changes announced in the early part of 1989 . |
| 7 | The industry blames successive governments ' lack of interest in vocational training ; perhaps the new training plans announced by the prime minister this week will help to fill the gap . |
| 8 | Special concern surrounded the plans announced by the Ukrainian Republic to run its own 420,000-strong army independently of the Soviet Union — a move which would result in a serious excess over the troop levels agreed in the CFE treaty . |
| 9 | The cost of the mammoth rebuilding of Romania 's urban centres , already underway by the end of the 1980s , and the still greater projects announced for the near future , was part of the process of social subordination . |
| 10 | In an interview with Pravda on Nov. 5 , 1989 , the Soviet Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Col.- Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev , said that of the unilateral cuts in conventional forces announced by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in December 1988 ( see pp. 36412 ; 36440 ) , the Soviet Union had thus far withdrawn 50,320 personnel , 3,118 tanks and 351 aircraft from Eastern Europe and Mongolia ( see p. 36657 ) and from forward Soviet deployments . |
| 11 | Among other decisions announced by the Supreme Court before its current term ended on June 27 was the ruling in the case of Masson v. New Yorker Magazine . |
| 12 | This deterioration reflected exceptional items of £994 million ( £888 million after tax ) , which were mainly a result of the provisions for employee severance costs and asset write-downs announced at the half year . |
| 13 | Sergeant Barr of the Los Angeles police announced to the gathered reporters : ‘ We 're going to clean the dope and the narcotics users out of Hollywood . |
| 14 | Of the twelve initiatives announced in the 1988 statement , eight can be seen to lie within the general sphere of development . |
| 15 | Nearly five thousand job losses have been announced with four thousand redundancies announced at the National Westminster Bank and eight hundred within the Department of Employment . |