Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State grain reserves were opened in Anhui and Jiangsu while medical teams fought water-borne diseases such as dysentery and cholera , which were reported to have affected up to a quarter of the flood victims . |
| 2 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 3 | Sikh separatists were reported to have massacred up to 57 people , mainly police officers and their relatives , in the first two weeks of August in retaliation against the recent killing of three Sikh militant leaders , namely Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala , head of the Khalistan Liberation Force ( killed in July — see p. 39008 ) , his successor , Navroop Singh ( killed on Aug. 2 ) and Sukhdev Singh Babbar , chief of the Babbar Khalsa International ( killed on Aug. 9 ) . |
| 4 | THE wayward Marquis of Blandford and his estranged wife Becky had a blazing row yesterday … hours after they were reported to have patched up their rift . |
| 5 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 6 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 7 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 8 | The talks were reported to have broken down on Jan. 21 over the issue of the withdrawal of JNA forces from areas of Croatia not under UN protection , although both sides affirmed their commitment to the ceasefire . |
| 9 | Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces . |
| 10 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 11 | On June 19 security forces clashed with some 200 Islamic militants who were reported to have attacked up to 20 shops and homes of Christians in Sanabu . |
| 12 | Office supplier Nobo Group enjoyed a 15 point jump to 92p , compliments of James Capel , who were reported to have put out a ‘ buy ’ recommendation . |
| 13 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 14 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 15 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 16 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 17 | Politicians were alleged to have paid out " a huge sum of money " to buy votes in the poorer rural areas . |
| 18 | John Baille 's sons were warned they were going to get sorted out , and Mr McCubbin 's own drugs distributor George Larkins was warned he was out to kill him . |
| 19 | ‘ Just when we were beginning to get settled down , too , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 20 | Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence . |
| 21 | Cylinders of acetylene were believed to have gone up in what was originally reported as a simple barn fire . |
| 22 | Tea was at five and before tea you were meant to have changed out of your work clothes . |
| 23 | Since then prices were estimated to have fallen by about 50 per cent . |