Example sentences of "[pron] be reported that a " in BNC.
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1 | It is reported that a draft bill to reform the Sunday trading laws will be published in the next few months . |
2 | This is what is meant when it is reported that a result , according to a particular test , is significant at , say , the 0.001 level . |
3 | It is reported that an Oxford don , was asked , in the 1914 war , why he did not volunteer for the defence of civilization . |
4 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
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 | 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 ) . |
9 | It was reported that a new wave of investigations into participants in the April-June pro-democracy protests was launched in November . |
10 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
11 | On Nov. 21 it was reported that a compromise had been reached between the EC and the USA after most of the contentious issues had been removed or papered over . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 ] . |
15 | In September it was reported that a trade co-operation agreement had been signed with Zimbabwe . |
16 | On April 7 it was reported that a helicopter had bombed a village in Sierra Leone . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | On March 8 it was reported that a newly discovered oil and gas field in the Fergana valley would provide Uzbekistan with up to 12,000,000 tonnes of oil per year — well above its domestic needs . |
20 | On Aug. 13 it was reported that a Manila judge had dismissed 11 of the 39 charges against Marcos on the grounds that the government 's de-regulation of foreign exchange dealings had removed the court 's authority to hear charges relating to currency violations arising from the overseas bank accounts held by Marcos . |
21 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that a lawsuit had been filed against Henri Emmanuelli , President of the National Assembly ( lower house of Parliament ) , for alleged misuse of public funds [ see p. 39023 for Le Monde report ] . |
22 | Also on Sept. 3 it was reported that a deputy of the ruling Democratic Party , Teodor Keco , was resigning from the party group in the Assembly and would serve as an independent . |
23 | On Oct. 14 it was reported that a UN investigating team had flown into southern Sudan from Nairobi following the murder of a UN official and a Norwegian journalist ; two other UN staff members were missing . |
24 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that a bridge on footpath No 40 was in need of repair . |
25 | Weeks later , it was reported that a new one was being grown — good spring growth no doubt , being that time of year . |
26 | Lower down it was reported that a very large number of trees , including several fine and ancient specimens , were blown down in Borders Region . |
27 | 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 ! |
28 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
29 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |
30 | On Jan. 16 it was reported that an alliance had been struck between the PLO and Amal at the main flashpoint of the fighting at Iqlim al-Tofah . |