Example sentences of "were [vb pp] to have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road and train transport was paralysed , and shopkeepers , students and agricultural workers were reported to have joined the region 's mineworkers in the strike [ see also p. 38446 ] . |
| 2 | On Sept. 2 , leaders of both ethnic minority parties in the SNC , Miklos Duraj of Coexistence and Bela Bugar of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement , were reported to have condemned the constitution . |
| 3 | In the first week of May some 30,000 more Somali refugees were reported to have crossed the border into Kenya , fleeing further fighting in the south [ for February UN report on Somali refugees in Kenya see p. 38755 ] . |
| 4 | Military leaders in Haiti were reported to have accepted the accord on Feb. 25 . |
| 5 | In response an estimated 6,000 nationalists were reported to have demonstrated the same evening in Tirgu Mures , demanding that Hungarians not be granted separate education in their own language or minority rights . |
| 6 | The relevance of the Warsaw Pact in the context of emerging patterns of European security , as reflected in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , came under close scrutiny during a summit meeting in June in Moscow , where a majority of delegates were reported to have favoured the Pact 's dissolution [ see p. 37550 ] . |
| 7 | Recent opinion polls were reported to have given the party under 2 per cent of electoral support . |
| 8 | Two days later Belhadj was hospitalized , to be followed shortly by Madani , but on Sept. 19 both were reported to have ended the strike . |
| 9 | In the simultaneous elections for 300 municipalities the UCN and PDCG were reported to have won the majority of mayorships . |
| 10 | Officials in Jiangxi were reported to have described the floods as the most serious of the century , with over 10,000,000 people in the province affected and 1,000,000 troops and civilian volunteers working to contain the damage . |
| 11 | However , Iraqi forces were reported to have mined the northern oilfields around Kirkuk , claimed by the Kurds as part of their territory . |
| 12 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 13 | As many as 10,000 civilians were reported to have fled the area . |
| 14 | They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes . |
| 15 | An estimated 350,000 Kuwaitis were reported to have left the country at the time of the Iraqi invasion . |
| 16 | The war could not be won because so many irredeemable mistakes had been made by a leadership unwilling to accept expert advice ; recent decrees and ‘ many speeches ’ were said to have contradicted the ‘ true will of the people ’ ; and the leaders had underestimated Russia and other countries . |
| 17 | The opposition Islamic Renaissance Party ( IRP ) , the Democratic Party and the Rastokhez ( Renaissance ) Movement were said to have organized the rallies . |
| 18 | On 21 December , the fatal day , they were said to have placed the suitcase with its Air Malta tags among the luggage being loaded on to international flights from Luqa airport . |
| 19 | Belau nationals Melwert Tmetuchel , Leslie Tewid and Angenhenio Subino were said to have led the smugglers . |
| 20 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 21 | Following violent protest riots in the mainly English-speaking North-West Province , centred on Fru Ndi 's home town of Bamenda , about 150 gendarmes were said to have surrounded the opposition leader 's house , where he was held with over 100 relatives and followers . |
| 22 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 23 | The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance . |
| 24 | On one ocassion , patients were said to have spent the night in wet beds because there was no-one to change them . |
| 25 | Friends within the Neighbours cast were said to have claimed the attack left Kylie ‘ badly shaken up . ’ |
| 26 | After end of the strike a number of striking teachers were not reinstated and many of these were said to have left the country to seek work in Botswana . |
| 27 | On Dec. 13 , Greek police were reported to have arrested 500 Albanians , most of whom were said to have entered the country illegally over the previous year as the situation of ethnic Greeks in Albania deteriorated . |
| 28 | Some 37,000 people were said to have entered the territory from Morocco since September . |
| 29 | The serge weavers in 1725 were said to have chosen the spring at the seasonal peak of demand . |
| 30 | If this was the overall assumption then , given that the communists were reckoned to have captured the nationalist movement in Vietnam , there could , logically , be no other course open to the US — France , naturally , would have her own reasons — than to resist . |