Example sentences of "reported [to-vb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) officers was reported to have formed a secret group backing the reinstatement of the former party chief , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 2 | On May 13 UK Royal Marines were reported to have killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others during a series of military skirmishes near Sarsank , in the north of the country . |
| 3 | Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome . |
| 4 | They also found that this same Robert Gravier was reported to have chartered the ill-fated Falcon Jet N888AR from Hansa Jet to take him from LaGuardia Airport , New York , to Acapulco . |
| 5 | The landlady is reported to have seen a red stain on the ceiling of one room.She called the police , and they found the body . |
| 6 | The industry-backed " Competitiveness Council " , chaired by US Vice-President Dan Quayle , was reported to have played a key role in influencing Administration policy . |
| 7 | The referee was reported to have blown the final whistle outside his dressing-room door . |
| 8 | Maung Hla , a Myanma military commander in charge of border operations , was reported to have told a Thai delegation in Myawadi on Jan. 3 , 1990 , that the Myanma government was determined to " wipe out " insurgents operating along the Thai-Myanma border . |
| 9 | He was also reported to have told a white worker not to resign , as management was ‘ only after the blacks ’ . |
| 10 | On Aug. 21 the Speaker of the Iranian Majlis ( parliament ) , Ayatollah Mehdi Karrubi , was reported to have told an open session of the Majlis that while Iran condemned the US military presence in the Gulf region , " we announce explicitly that Iraq 's aggression against Kuwait is condemned " . |
| 11 | On June 13 Cohen was reported to have proposed a partial withdrawal of rebel forces from the south and the opening of land routes to the town of Juba . |
| 12 | Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities . |
| 13 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 14 | The handsome Lotus marketing manager is reported to have rented a luxury cottage 25 miles from the Queen 's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk . |
| 15 | Although the sentences were to run consecutively , the court was reported to have reduced the total period of imprisonment by two years as a gesture of goodwill . |
| 16 | Sun was reported to have set an initial tag of $5,495 on the thing last week ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 17 | The UN special envoy to the territory , Yakoub Khan , was reported to have submitted a pessimistic report to the Security Council on Oct. 28 , emphasizing the difficulty of ascertaining who should vote in a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara . |
| 18 | Forest 's £3 million-rated midfielder Roy Keane is reported to have agreed an extended contract for another two years . |