Example sentences of "[prep] announce [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roby was worried that through linking the four Iranians to the British hostages , the Iranian government was preparing the ground for announcing that the Britons , too , were dead . |
| 2 | The defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind wasted no time in announcing that the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife will be sold to a private company next year . |
| 3 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 4 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 5 | The draft platform formed the basis of Gorbachev 's opening report to the plenum , but he began by announcing that the politburo was proposing to bring forward the 28th CPSU congress from October to late June or early July , to be preceded by a " report-and-election campaign " during which " overdue personnel issues will be resolved and new elected party bodies will be formed " . |