Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrialized countries in which illegal drugs were consumed agreed to limit the supply of chemicals used to manufacture such drugs and to control the flow of arms to drug cartels . |
| 2 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 3 | Road and train transport was paralysed , and shopkeepers , students and agricultural workers were reported to have joined the region 's mineworkers in the strike [ see also p. 38446 ] . |
| 4 | On Sept. 2 , leaders of both ethnic minority parties in the SNC , Miklos Duraj of Coexistence and Bela Bugar of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement , were reported to have condemned the constitution . |
| 5 | In the first week of May some 30,000 more Somali refugees were reported to have crossed the border into Kenya , fleeing further fighting in the south [ for February UN report on Somali refugees in Kenya see p. 38755 ] . |
| 6 | Military leaders in Haiti were reported to have accepted the accord on Feb. 25 . |
| 7 | The relevance of the Warsaw Pact in the context of emerging patterns of European security , as reflected in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , came under close scrutiny during a summit meeting in June in Moscow , where a majority of delegates were reported to have favoured the Pact 's dissolution [ see p. 37550 ] . |
| 8 | Recent opinion polls were reported to have given the party under 2 per cent of electoral support . |
| 9 | Two days later Belhadj was hospitalized , to be followed shortly by Madani , but on Sept. 19 both were reported to have ended the strike . |
| 10 | In the simultaneous elections for 300 municipalities the UCN and PDCG were reported to have won the majority of mayorships . |
| 11 | Officials in Jiangxi were reported to have described the floods as the most serious of the century , with over 10,000,000 people in the province affected and 1,000,000 troops and civilian volunteers working to contain the damage . |
| 12 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 13 | As many as 10,000 civilians were reported to have fled the area . |
| 14 | They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes . |
| 15 | An estimated 350,000 Kuwaitis were reported to have left the country at the time of the Iraqi invasion . |
| 16 | The opposition Islamic Renaissance Party ( IRP ) , the Democratic Party and the Rastokhez ( Renaissance ) Movement were said to have organized the rallies . |
| 17 | On 21 December , the fatal day , they were said to have placed the suitcase with its Air Malta tags among the luggage being loaded on to international flights from Luqa airport . |
| 18 | Belau nationals Melwert Tmetuchel , Leslie Tewid and Angenhenio Subino were said to have led the smugglers . |
| 19 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 20 | Following violent protest riots in the mainly English-speaking North-West Province , centred on Fru Ndi 's home town of Bamenda , about 150 gendarmes were said to have surrounded the opposition leader 's house , where he was held with over 100 relatives and followers . |
| 21 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 22 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 23 | Friends within the Neighbours cast were said to have claimed the attack left Kylie ‘ badly shaken up . ’ |
| 24 | After end of the strike a number of striking teachers were not reinstated and many of these were said to have left the country to seek work in Botswana . |
| 25 | On Dec. 13 , Greek police were reported to have arrested 500 Albanians , most of whom were said to have entered the country illegally over the previous year as the situation of ethnic Greeks in Albania deteriorated . |
| 26 | Some 37,000 people were said to have entered the territory from Morocco since September . |
| 27 | The serge weavers in 1725 were said to have chosen the spring at the seasonal peak of demand . |
| 28 | The cost of the programme had exceeded government expectations , and the new funds , repayable over 10 years with a five-year grace period , were granted to help cover the period 1992-94 . |
| 29 | People reported seeing smoke from over 70 miles away and helicopters were used to help fight the blaze . |
| 30 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |