Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] announced [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that four Oromo organizations , the OPDO , the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia ( IFLO ) , the United Oromo People 's Liberation Front ( UOPLF ) and the Oromo Abo Liberation Front ( OALF ) , had agreed to work together towards the creation of a " broad-based national entity " . |
2 | Gorbachev met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal in Moscow on Sept. 17 , when it was announced that diplomatic relations between the two countries , broken off since 1939 , were to be resumed . |
3 | Last week it was announced that seventy-five people are to take voluntary redundancy at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire . |
4 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
5 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
6 | By Jan. 19 it was announced that six groups had agreed to the formula , but the proposal received strong opposition from the Pakistan-based Hezb-e Islami , led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
7 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
8 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that broad agreement had been reached on protection for the German minority in Poland " in accordance with international standards " . |
9 | It was announced that two trees would be planted in Regent 's Park on Wednesday 18th March at 11.30 in memory of and . |
10 | On Nov. 23 it was announced that 100,000 cases of corruption had been uncovered during 1989 , three times more than in 1988 . |
11 | In compensation for the subsidy cuts , which had been negotiated in consultation with trades unions , and in an attempt to minimize their effect before the elections , it was announced that minimum pay would rise by 16 per cent to 12,920 lei per month ( US$1.00=391.55 lei as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) . |
12 | On March 12 it was announced that legislative elections postponed in December would be held on May 24 ; it was later announced that the number of representatives in the National Assembly would be increased from 77 to 107 . |
13 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
14 | On Feb. 28 it was announced that 54 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks on Hoxha monuments . |