Example sentences of "[be] reported have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gunmen were reported to have boarded a UN relief plane at Kismayu , southern Somalia , on Nov. 23 and robbed the passengers and crew . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cotopaxi in Ecuador is reported to have lobbed a 200-ton bomb over fourteen kilometres , but this seems a little difficult to swallow . |
| 6 | The infamous Tibbet , executed at the roundabout at the top of Putney Hill , is reported to have stabbed a man to death there ; it has literary associations also . |
| 7 | TROUBLED defence electronics group Ferranti International Signal is reported to have reached a compromise with West Germany 's Telefunken Systems Teknik over their rival bids to supply the radar for the European Fighter Aircraft . |
| 8 | TROUBLED defence electronics group Ferranti International Signal is reported to have reached a compromise with West Germany 's Telefunken Systems Teknik over their rival bids to supply the radar for the European Fighter Aircraft . |
| 9 | As we have already noted , the Bishop of Rome , in A. D. 318 , is reported to have had a meeting with Nazarean or Desposyni leaders directly descended from Jesus 's family . |
| 10 | When the separation was made public Mr Butner is reported to have told a friend : ‘ We got what we were after . |
| 11 | A committee of shaikhs representing Yemen 's highly armed traditional leaders was reported to have given a warning on Dec. 15 that the tribes would intervene unless order was restored . |
| 12 | Another respected ex-Cabinet minister , Fowler , was reported to have declined a request to join . |
| 13 | Later in the month Iliescu was reported to have expressed a readiness for Romanian-Moldavan unification . |
| 14 | The British delegation was reported to have suggested a deadline of 2010 , claiming that an earlier target date would force countries to waste money on fitting desulphurisation equipment to power stations nearing the end of their useful life . |
| 15 | ATHLETICS was hit by another drugs scandal last night as world champion hurdler , Lyudmila Narozhilenko , was reported to have failed a dope test . |
| 16 | An explosion in a tank containing uranium and plutonium was reported to have started a fire , leading to the release of a radioactive cloud . |
| 17 | The team clearly adopted a far too low key approach , with insufficient trawling for support among backbenchers which was reported to have offended a number who felt that their support was being taken for granted . |
| 18 | On March 6 the Nagorny Karabakh Supreme Soviet ( established in December 1991 — see p. 38657 ) was reported to have established a defence council . |
| 19 | The stock fell another 6 to 240p before Hoare Govett was reported to have issued a recommendation on the basis of a 9 p.c. yeild , helping the price partially recover to 242½p . |
| 20 | At North Berwick he was reported to have assembled a band of 200 witches to raise a magic storm which would drown the king and his new queen on their voyage to Scotland . |