Example sentences of "be reported that a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A week later it was reported that a two-month-old economic and information blockade was being stepped up by Georgian militants , who were preventing convoys of emergency food supplies for Ossete communities arriving from the North Ossetia autonomous region [ for map see p. 37971 ] . |
2 | It was reported that a new wave of investigations into participants in the April-June pro-democracy protests was launched in November . |
3 | Weeks later , it was reported that a new one was being grown — good spring growth no doubt , being that time of year . |
4 | It was reported that a small altar dominated his room , decorated with the withered heads of animals forensics could not identify , its centre-piece an idol of such explicitly sexual a nature no newspaper dared publish a sketch of it , let alone a photograph . |
5 | On April 7 , 1990 , it was reported that a quarterly survey of corporate partnerships , undertaken by UK accountants Peat Marwick McLintock showed that COCOM rules were being circumvented by the rise in the number of small joint ventures . |
6 | Only the other day it was reported that a young mother of a seven-year-old child had taken the Territorial Army to court for refusing to let her become a paratrooper … and won ! |
7 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
8 | Further studies have shown that RJ2.2.5 may lack a factor required for the activity of a MHC class II specific enhancer function ( 18,19 ) ; in particular , it was reported that a conserved cis-acting regulatory signal of the MHC class II promoters , the X-box , enhances MHC class II expression in Raji , but not in RJ2.2.5 ( 19 ) . |
9 | The Serbian blockade of ports from Oct. 3 reportedly created severe shortages of water and electricity in Dubrovnik , and on Oct. 28 it was reported that a four-day-old ceasefire agreed between the JNA and Dubrovnik city officials had broken down , the JNA having issued an ultimatum for all weapons in the city to be surrendered on Oct. 26 . |
10 | He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office . |
11 | When it was reported that a considerable number of young children in the house were not eating their breakfast , which consisted of porridge and bread , he recommended that , for children under sixteen , the same diet should be given for breakfast as for supper . |
12 | It was reported that an extraordinary UDPM congress set for March 28-31 would discuss the transition to a multiparty system . |