Example sentences of "march [adj] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A spokesman of the left-wing nationalist guerrilla movement Fretílín announced on March 12 that the organization 's second-in-command , Jose da Costa , had escaped from a military hospital in Dili . |
2 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
3 | Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 . |
4 | Klaus announced on March 22 that the government had decided to cancel Czechoslovakia 's multilateral agreements with the CMEA ( COMECON ) under which the exchange rates between the crown and the currencies of the other CMEA countries were fixed by joint arrangement [ see p. 37334 ] . |
5 | It was announced on March 22 that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) would be asked to help in returning 40,000 political exiles to South Africa from countries with which Pretoria did not have diplomatic relations . |
6 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
7 | Hon. and learned Member for Warrington South , Mr. Mark Carlisle Q.C. , on 1 March 1985 that no life sentence prisoner will be detained for more than 17 years without a formal review of his case even where the period thought necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence exceeds 20 years . |
8 | It was announced on March 30 that the USSR Supreme Soviet had set up a USSR Union Republican State Committee for the Nationalities Question " to improve state administration in the sphere of national development and inter-ethnic relations " . |
9 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
10 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
11 | However , the Interior Minister , Julio Mera Figueroa , insisted at a press conference on March 7 that the decree did not modify the March 1989 decree but merely changed the composition of the National Security Council . |
12 | The District judge for Guam ruled on March 26 that the law was " obviously unconstitutional " and suspended its enforcement pending a full hearing on its constitutionality . |
13 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
14 | The Rompress news agency reported on March 10 that the NSF had received 33.6 per cent of votes cast in the local polls as compared with 24.3 per cent for the Democratic Convention , an alliance of opposition parties . |
15 | The authorities would also extend the use of deportation for alleged activists ; Israeli radio reported on March 31 that the authorities would henceforth " expel inciters in places from where murderers , stabbers and others set out " . |
16 | It was reported on March 21 that a transport plane , in which members of Senegal 's contingent in the anti-Iraq coalition were returning from a visit to Mecca , crashed in Saudi Arabia killing 92 people . |
17 | Radio Moscow World News reported on March 21 that the MDP , the National Progressive Party ( NPP ) and the United Party of Mongolia had agreed to form a coalition " with a view to ensuring democratic victory at the parliamentary elections in June " . |
18 | The ceremony was attended by Portuguese-speaking African leaders and by Portuguese President Mario Soares , who said on arrival on March 21 that the functioning of the democratic process in Cape Verde was " an example for other regions of Africa " . |
19 | However , it was in March 1917 that a fighting body was founded in Italy , led by Mussolini , called Fascists , who were avowed anti-communists and anti-socialists . |
20 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
21 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
22 | Richard Solomon , the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific , announced during a visit to Hanoi on March 5 that the USA had pledged to provide humanitarian aid to Vietnam worth some US$3,000,000 . |
23 | Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao announced on March 5 that the board of the IMF had formally approved an economic plan by the Philippines designed to curb inflation and reduce public spending . |
24 | It was reported on March 17 that the Uzbek Supreme Soviet Presidium had decided to recall within a month Uzbek servicemen from republics not in the CIS ( the Baltic states and Georgia ) , from CIS member states establishing their own armed forces ( Ukraine , Moldova and Azerbaijan ) and from the Transcaucasus military district and Caspian flotilla . |
25 | Vlok announced on March 11 that the townships of Alexandra , Tembisa , Meadowlands , Diepkloof , Soweto and Dobsonville had been declared unrest areas and place under curfew between the hours of 9.00 p.m. and 4.00 a.m . |
26 | Baker lost little time in accepting the majority of Lygo 's recommendations , announcing in March 1992 that the Prison Service for England and Wales would become an agency from 1 April 1993 . |
27 | The government announced on March 4 that the rupee would become partly convertible . |
28 | It was announced on March 6 that the Tajik Supreme Soviet had approved a land reform law , giving all citizens the right to lifetime ownership of land and to lease and inherit land . |
29 | But when ABC Television reported in March 1987 that the USSR and Iran had reached an agreement ‘ to set up two super-secret Soviet electronic reconnaissance stations in Iranian territory ’ to monitor American naval ships in the Persian Gulf Tass rejected this report as ‘ utterly groundless ’ . |
30 | It was reported on March 8 that an offer of resignation by Communications Minister Clement Chang , over his family 's involvement in an insider stock trading scandal , was not to be accepted by Hau until the Ministries of Finance and Justice had completed further investigations . |