Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] announce the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church became increasingly involved with human rights work : Romero made a practice of announcing the week 's toll of human rights violations at his packed Sunday sermons and the Socorro Juridico , the Archbishop 's legal aid office , became an internationally recognized source of independent information on the repression . |
| 2 | On Nov. 18 , following a 10-hour emergency Cabinet meeting , de Klerk sought to defuse the growing crisis by announcing the appointment of Lt.-Gen. |
| 3 | I thank my hon. Friend for announcing the inquiry today . |
| 4 | In his letter , Mr Clarke states : ‘ I can think of no justification for the continued delay in announcing the results of the ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 5 | At the opening of the National Assembly in November , Mwinyi responded to growing demands for a return to multiparty democracy by announcing the appointment of a commission to investigate possible changes to the political system . |
| 6 | The French smoothed Britain 's way to accepting the Exchange Rate Mechanism by announcing the dropping of exchange controls . |
| 7 | IF President FW de Klerk was hoping to ease the pressure on his government by announcing the release of eight prominent prisoners on Tuesday , he must have been disappointed by the reaction . |
| 8 | Chidambaram 's resignation , the second by a member of the current Council of Ministers [ see p. 38813 ] , prompted the government to respond to calls by opposition parties for a full inquiry into the scandal by announcing the establishment on July 9 of a joint parliamentary committee . |
| 9 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |