Example sentences of "it [be] report [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly we need to know more , for example , it is reported that the red leafmonkey ( Presbytis rubicunda ) in northern Borneo , like other primates , eats soil , usually from termite mounds , but the soil has been analysed only chemically with no clear-cut conclusions : what about the micro-organisms and their products ? |
| 2 | Division of assets would be on the basis of the size of each republic 's population , Slovakia having approximately half the population of Bohemia-Moravia ; it was reported that no financial compensation would be paid by either republic to the other . |
| 3 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
| 4 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |
| 5 | It was reported that a new wave of investigations into participants in the April-June pro-democracy protests was launched in November . |
| 6 | Weeks later , it was reported that a new one was being grown — good spring growth no doubt , being that time of year . |
| 7 | It was reported that a small altar dominated his room , decorated with the withered heads of animals forensics could not identify , its centre-piece an idol of such explicitly sexual a nature no newspaper dared publish a sketch of it , let alone a photograph . |
| 8 | A week later it was reported that a two-month-old economic and information blockade was being stepped up by Georgian militants , who were preventing convoys of emergency food supplies for Ossete communities arriving from the North Ossetia autonomous region [ for map see p. 37971 ] . |
| 9 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
| 10 | Further studies have shown that RJ2.2.5 may lack a factor required for the activity of a MHC class II specific enhancer function ( 18,19 ) ; in particular , it was reported that a conserved cis-acting regulatory signal of the MHC class II promoters , the X-box , enhances MHC class II expression in Raji , but not in RJ2.2.5 ( 19 ) . |
| 11 | The Serbian blockade of ports from Oct. 3 reportedly created severe shortages of water and electricity in Dubrovnik , and on Oct. 28 it was reported that a four-day-old ceasefire agreed between the JNA and Dubrovnik city officials had broken down , the JNA having issued an ultimatum for all weapons in the city to be surrendered on Oct. 26 . |
| 12 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 13 | When it was reported that a considerable number of young children in the house were not eating their breakfast , which consisted of porridge and bread , he recommended that , for children under sixteen , the same diet should be given for breakfast as for supper . |
| 14 | It was reported that an extraordinary UDPM congress set for March 28-31 would discuss the transition to a multiparty system . |
| 15 | On July 17 it was reported that the Democratic Platform co-ordinating council had decided to recommend that its supporters should begin leaving the party after all . |
| 16 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 17 | In November it was reported that the European Communities had agreed to proposals for Namibia to join the Lomé Convention , under which the country would secure an annual beef quota , at an estimated price 40 per cent higher than the world market , which would make Namibia the second largest beef exporter among the African , Caribbean and Pacific countries ( after Botswana ) . |
| 18 | Wingti also promised to provide compensation for those killed and , on Sept. 20 , it was reported that the abducted man had been returned to Honiara . |
| 19 | On Oct. 1 it was reported that the Chadian authorities suspected Chadian refugees in Niger of having triggered the recent disturbances in the northern Tibesti region [ see p. 38427 ] . |
| 20 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 21 | On July 4 a goodwill visit to Port Vila by two Australian navy ships ( scheduled for July 9-12 ) was cancelled as a mark of Australian displeasure , and on July 29 it was reported that the Australian government had imposed a ban on all high-level contact with Vanuatu until Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 22 | On Aug. 23 , it was reported that the Bulgarian ambassador was wounded by shrapnel and that two local personnel in both the Pakistan and French embassies had been killed . |
| 23 | It was reported that the French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , had , in the course of a " flaming row " , objected strongly to the alliance as such claiming the right to seek new relations with former members of the Warsaw Pact . |
| 24 | On April 18-19 Mitterrand visited Bucharest [ see p. 38163 ] , and on July 17-19 Roman visited Paris again , when it was reported that the French government had guaranteed loans to the value of US$200,000,000 to French firms investing in Romania . |
| 25 | It was reported that the dinucleotide-based roll angle value of GC step is one of the smallest found in all dinucleotides ( 1,6 ) . |