Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | On April 28 UN relief agencies were reported to have noted an increase in symptoms commonly associated with cholera , especially around the cities of Basra and Mosul . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | Military leaders in Haiti were reported to have accepted the accord on Feb. 25 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | Recent opinion polls were reported to have given the party under 2 per cent of electoral support . |
| 8 | Two days later Belhadj was hospitalized , to be followed shortly by Madani , but on Sept. 19 both were reported to have ended the strike . |
| 9 | In the simultaneous elections for 300 municipalities the UCN and PDCG were reported to have won the majority of mayorships . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As many as 10,000 civilians were reported to have fled the area . |
| 13 | They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes . |
| 14 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |
| 15 | Gunmen were reported to have boarded a UN relief plane at Kismayu , southern Somalia , on Nov. 23 and robbed the passengers and crew . |
| 16 | Repeated suggestions that the Mafia was behind extortion rackets on the island , sheltering behind Italian business investments , were reported to have prompted a declaration by the separatist National Front for the Liberation of Corsica ( FNLC ) that it would in future " intervene militarily " to halt Mafia activity . |
| 17 | An estimated 350,000 Kuwaitis were reported to have left the country at the time of the Iraqi invasion . |
| 18 | Junior officers were reported to have fought a gun battle on Feb. 9 with the former army chief , Andrew Jamangile , and three other officers , later arrested . |
| 19 | The opposition Islamic Renaissance Party ( IRP ) , the Democratic Party and the Rastokhez ( Renaissance ) Movement were said to have organized the rallies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Much was made in the media of the activities of Winnie Mandela 's Soweto bodyguards , nicknamed the " Mandela United Football Club " , who were said to have led a reign of terror in the township , at which she had connived . |
| 22 | Belau nationals Melwert Tmetuchel , Leslie Tewid and Angenhenio Subino were said to have led the smugglers . |
| 23 | Detectives were said to have uncovered a plot by ‘ militant extremists ’ to use the march as a pretext for attacking buildings and police officers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The police were said to have had no grounds for intervention unless the scene were shown to be the record of a real murder , so the posters dared the police to prove it real and the public to prove it not . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 29 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 30 | At that time Soutine was painting turbulent and violent landscapes and the two were said to have shared a studio at Cagnes-sur-Mer owned by a M. Nicolai , the proprietor of the general store . |