Example sentences of "it [was/were] report that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported that Palestinian forces , and militias of the Syrian-backed Amal movement and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , withdrew from the Iqlim al-Tuffah area in compliance with previous agreements . |
| 2 | On May 13th at a meeting of a special sub-committee , it was reported that various articles of furniture had been found in the master 's apartments . |
| 3 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 4 | It was reported that one of the two attackers had been wounded while escaping . |
| 5 | June : June 1 : Bessmertnykh and Baker announced in Lisbon agreement in principle on the resolution of disputes about the CFE treaty ; June 5 : President Gorbachev in Oslo accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize and called for active and practical Western support for perestroika and glasnost ; June 11 : it was reported that Soviet-Cuban trade , halted because of Cuba 's hard currency shortage , would be continued on a barter basis ; June 11 : it was reported that the rouble could become domestically convertible on Jan. 1 , 1992 ; June 19-20 : Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , had two days of talks in Moscow on Soviet-EC co-operation ; June 19 : the last Soviet soldier left Hungary . |
| 6 | On Sept. 19 , however , it was reported that Western diplomats had suggested that the magistrate leading the investigation , Jean-Louis Bruguière , regarded Syria to be the main suspect . |
| 7 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 8 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 9 | On May 30 , it was reported that two of the missing witnesses in the trial had been kidnapped and smuggled to Zambia where one of them , Gabriel Pelo Mekgwe , was being held by ANC activists , and the other , Katiza Cebekhulu , was in prison . |
| 10 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 11 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 12 | It was reported that internal differences had been resolved . |
| 13 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
| 14 | On July 12 it was reported that Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had been ordered to take measures against officials involved in buying their state-owned dachas ( country houses ) at vastly reduced prices . |
| 15 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
| 16 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 17 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
| 18 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
| 19 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 20 | At the beginning of March it was reported that seven FARC guerrillas and three Brazilian soldiers had been killed in border clashes near the Brazilian town of Tabatinga in the Amazon region . |
| 21 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 22 | On May 15 it was reported that 201 people had died in the violence during the month so far . |
| 23 | It was reported that several pro-US countries , including Yugoslavia , Egypt , Venezuela , Argentina and Cyprus , had resisted attempts to link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait with the resolution of other Middle Eastern problems , in particular the Palestinian issue . |
| 24 | It was reported that more than IR£10 million has been permanently removed from the Group 's total cost base in comparison with overheads in 1991/92 . |
| 25 | It was reported that 200,000 of these had registered officially as addicts by the July 23 deadline set by the government at the start of its new anti-drugs campaign begun in early January 1989 . |
| 26 | It was reported that some delegates demanded the replacement of between 70 and 90 per cent of the 91-member central committee , but almost 80 per cent of the outgoing central committee members were estimated to have been re-elected . |
| 27 | After an earlier round of talks in Islamabad in July [ see pp. 38338-39 ] , it was reported that some mujaheddin groups had refused to accept the inclusion of representatives of the Najibullah regime in a transitional government [ see also p. 38194 ] . |
| 28 | On Aug. 28 , it was reported that some 1,000 Italian troops would assist with the distribution of US$85,000,000 worth of Italian food aid , sufficient to meet Albania 's requirement for three months . |
| 29 | On Sept. 1 it was reported that those arrested included the Minister of Commerce , Transport and Tourism , Mohammed Moussa , himself a Tuareg , and two members of the transitional national legislature , the High Council of the Republic ( HCR ) . |
| 30 | After a politburo meeting on Aug. 2 , it was reported that 21 of its 26 members favoured abandoning the controversial proposals , preferring to see ZANU use its current huge parliamentary majority — it held 116 of the 150 seats — to push through policies to combat the country 's pressing economic problems . |