Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] report [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was reported that Palestinian forces , and militias of the Syrian-backed Amal movement and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , withdrew from the Iqlim al-Tuffah area in compliance with previous agreements . |
2 | On May 13th at a meeting of a special sub-committee , it was reported that various articles of furniture had been found in the master 's apartments . |
3 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
4 | June : June 1 : Bessmertnykh and Baker announced in Lisbon agreement in principle on the resolution of disputes about the CFE treaty ; June 5 : President Gorbachev in Oslo accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize and called for active and practical Western support for perestroika and glasnost ; June 11 : it was reported that Soviet-Cuban trade , halted because of Cuba 's hard currency shortage , would be continued on a barter basis ; June 11 : it was reported that the rouble could become domestically convertible on Jan. 1 , 1992 ; June 19-20 : Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , had two days of talks in Moscow on Soviet-EC co-operation ; June 19 : the last Soviet soldier left Hungary . |
5 | On Sept. 19 , however , it was reported that Western diplomats had suggested that the magistrate leading the investigation , Jean-Louis Bruguière , regarded Syria to be the main suspect . |
6 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
7 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
8 | It was reported that internal differences had been resolved . |
9 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
10 | On July 12 it was reported that Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had been ordered to take measures against officials involved in buying their state-owned dachas ( country houses ) at vastly reduced prices . |
11 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
12 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
13 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
14 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
15 | At the beginning of March it was reported that seven FARC guerrillas and three Brazilian soldiers had been killed in border clashes near the Brazilian town of Tabatinga in the Amazon region . |
16 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
17 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
18 | It was reported that some delegates demanded the replacement of between 70 and 90 per cent of the 91-member central committee , but almost 80 per cent of the outgoing central committee members were estimated to have been re-elected . |
19 | After an earlier round of talks in Islamabad in July [ see pp. 38338-39 ] , it was reported that some mujaheddin groups had refused to accept the inclusion of representatives of the Najibullah regime in a transitional government [ see also p. 38194 ] . |
20 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
21 | It was reported that Cuban resales of Soviet oil , an important source of foreign currency , had dropped from a peak of almost US$600,000,000 in 1985 to US$180,000,000 in 1989 . |
22 | It was reported that Red Rhino had debts of more than £300,000 . |
23 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
24 | Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun . |
25 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
26 | It was reported that Laotian rebels on June 14 captured three government military positions after heavy fighting in the north-east of the country . |
27 | On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats . |
28 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
29 | This month it was reported that Chinese officials and technicians are equipping an Iranian nuclear facility near the southern Iran-Iraq border in Khuzestan , with uranium-enriching technology . |
30 | In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order . |