Example sentences of "it is reported " in BNC.

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31 It is reported as being in excellent condition .
32 It is reported in [ 118 ] that Gauss 's friends found him cold , uncommunicative , ambitious for security and fame , and very conservative .
33 It is reported that in a large printing office in the city [ which can only be R. & R. Clark ] where there are about 100 females employed , more than 70 handed in notices to strike yesterday , while correspondingly large proportions of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike , failing a settlement .
34 Social security appeal tribunals are categorized as the least formal of the tribunals investigated , but it is reported that appellants nevertheless found attendance before them a nerve-wracking ordeal .
35 For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover .
36 You may wonder why it is reported that He seemed to resent them , which may suggest that he was unable to express his own resentment , which may limit your range of potential interpretations of the expression He .
37 It is reported that the Seiko wordlist , for example , can always be easily identified because it accepts M-O-W-S-E as a correct spelling of the word ‘ mouse ’ !
38 The rule is that any decision may be cited to a court provided that it is reported by a member of the Bar who was present when judgment was delivered .
39 Having discussed the distinguishing features of these three organizational groups , Anthony ( 1978 , p. 173 ) considers that ‘ differences between Type A nonprofit organizations and profit-orientated organizations are primarily in the way accounting information is used , not in the concepts governing how it is reported ’ .
40 It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God .
41 It is reported that on discharge from hospital on the thirty-sixth postoperative day " he appeared to have perfectly normal powers of comprehension of the spoken word " and was able to refer to the medical and nursing staff by name .
42 In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year .
43 It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years .
44 It is reported that a draft bill to reform the Sunday trading laws will be published in the next few months .
45 1778 It is reported that the Kirk Yeard of Kilchoman is nearly finished .
46 £5 " The repair of the Duich Bridge is still under consideration and it is reported that " the Bridge of Corary is likely to Fail for want of some material repair " and a sum is stented .
47 In Nicaragua , it is reported that many male babies born since the beginning of this year have been named either Saddam or Hussein .
48 It is reported that he never performed an operation without washing his hands .
49 Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises .
50 It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) .
51 In the vestry book for 1752 it is reported that Charles Wallis , Sexton , ‘ appeared at the vestry and being strictly examined touching the bounds of the churchyard do acknowledge and declare to the best of his memory that :
52 It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world .
53 If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public .
54 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 .
55 It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections .
56 By 1875 , it is reported , the use of those nicknames by which people were known and identified in the villages of the Bray country in Normandy , and even the informal local versions of their first names , had virtually disappeared .
57 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 ?
58 It is reported that everyone in the area has lost a relative as a direct result of pollution .
59 In theory , logging was suspended by law in January 1990 , but it is reported to be continuing apace .
60 It is valuable as a means of helping the plaintiff to restore his reputation ( at least when it is reported ) but it can be exploited to present a false picture under the pressure to avoid trial .
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