Example sentences of "[was/were] reported have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 2 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 3 | The United States carrier Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) ceased operations on Dec. 4 after facing heavy financial losses ; an estimated 10,000 of the airline 's employees were reported to have been made redundant . |
| 4 | All of Kuwait 's 950 producing oil wells were reported to have been set ablaze or damaged . |
| 5 | On March 8 the " commercial " border with Argentina was reported to have been closed due to a " massive increase " in smuggling . |
| 6 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |