Example sentences of "[vb past] launched a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was previously with IBM and before she left launched a new networking consulting business for IBM North America . |
| 2 | Conran had launched a business empire that was eventually to employ thirty-three thousand people . |
| 3 | Iraq said yesterday it had launched a 48-tonne three-stage rocket into space and announced the local manufacture of new long-range missiles . |
| 4 | Iraq said yesterday it had launched a 48-tonne three-stage rocket into space and announced the local manufacture of new long-range missiles . |
| 5 | The military said it had launched a big manhunt for army coup leaders who escaped when their men surrendered . |
| 6 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 7 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 8 | Manuilski , on behalf of the Party , indicted the Ukrainian Bolsheviks for excluding Ukrainian participation from the government , for behaving like a typically colonial regime ( at the 8th Party Congress Lenin had launched a scathing attack on Great Russian chauvinism in the Ukrainian regional section ) . |
| 9 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 10 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 11 | Nor can Socrates ' association with some of the Thirty Tyrants who , with Spartan support , had launched a coup against the democracy five years earlier , have been decisive . |
| 12 | Brewers had launched a lot of nablab ale brands with very little support but wide distribution through tied estates . |
| 13 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 14 | By the early 1760s he lived in Derby and had launched a career as a cartographer . |
| 15 | ( In 1981 Israel had launched a surprise air attack on Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor site — see p. 31908 . ) |
| 16 | Iraq claimed that its troops had been invited into Kuwait by internal " revolutionaries " who had launched a coup against the Amir , a claim which was internationally repudiated . |
| 17 | It was reported on Sept. 21 , 1990 , that the Paris Club had launched a strategy offering more favourable terms for lower-middle-income countries ( defined as countries with per capita incomes of between US$700and $1,000 ) . |
| 18 | Based across the border in Sudan , he had formed the MPS with Libyan backing , and had launched a series of offensives from Sudan 's western Darfur region ; the third ( and finally successful ) such offensive began on Nov. 10 . |
| 19 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 20 | Renamo insisted on Kenyan mediation and claimed that the Frelimo government had launched a major offensive against rebel-controlled zones . |
| 21 | In early March Saudi Arabian companies had started trucking food into Kuwait and had launched a major refuse clearing operation . |
| 22 | The LTTE had launched a major assault on July 10 on the Sri Lankan government 's army base at Elephant Pass . |
| 23 | In September supporters of the radical Vishwa Hindi Parishad had launched a march to Ayodhya to begin construction of a Hindu temple on the grounds of the disused Moslem mosque there . |
| 24 | The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26 . |
| 25 | The gesture followed months of escalating political violence in Sind during which the PPP had claimed that the provincial government had launched a political vendetta against its members [ see pp. 38338 ; 38393 ; 38683 ] . |
| 26 | Taylor refused to agree to his troops being disarmed while they remained under attack from the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( ULIMO — a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe , reportedly based in Sierra Leone ) , which had launched a renewed attack on the NPFL as the Geneva talks began . |
| 27 | In January the government had launched a major offensive aimed at capturing the Karen headquarters at Manerplaw on the eastern border with Thailand [ see pp. 38725 ; 38767 ; 38815 ] . |
| 28 | Assisted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that members of the last parliament were not immune from prosecution for corruption even if they had been re-elected , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sir Julius Chan had launched a full investigation in late July into the financial dealings of the previous government . |
| 29 | On Aug. 7 it was announced that the United Arab Emirates had launched a programme to strengthen its armed forces ( which numbered 40,000 before the 1990-91 Gulf war crisis ) and replace its component of Arab and non-Arab expatriates with UAE nationals . |
| 30 | The stability of the former ruling party was also threatened by the announcement on Sept. 21 that Lee Jong Chan , a former member of the DLP who had unsuccessfully challenged Kim Young Sam for the party 's presidential nomination [ see p. 38911 ] , had launched a new political organization called the National Alliance for New Politics . |