Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] reported that " in BNC.
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| 31 | In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals . |
| 32 | In July last year , it was reported that Unisys had already won the business with a plan to remodel the A16 and A19 mainframes for the South Korean market ( CI No 1,972 ) , but the company denied that it was a done deal . |
| 33 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It was reported that the judge specifically ordered that the girl should not be named . |
| 36 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 37 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
| 38 | At a general meeting held on the evening of 13 February , it was reported that there were 475 non-union journeymen at work in Edinburgh and that " additional hands were daily arriving " . |
| 39 | Next it was reported that The Harbour had sold , for £250 to an Eastbourne hotel which planned to hang it in its ballroom . |
| 40 | On 7 April it was reported that , " last Saturday a body of sailors , to the number of 400 to 500 assembled at North Shields … and proceeded from thence to Sunderland with colours flying before them and at the cross there read a paper setting forth their grievances and a demand for immediate redress . |
| 41 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 42 | It was reported that in 1985 and 1986 , objection was taken by the Lord Chancellor to Lord Justice Brown-Wilkinson 's participation in public debates as a result of which he did not appear . |
| 43 | Later , in June 1989 , it was reported that she was proposing to the Lord Chancellor that the Children Bill should reverse a decision which she and other members of the Court of Appeal had felt obliged to make excluding hearsay evidence . |
| 44 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 45 | In June 1990 , it was reported that the Home Secretary was seeking a compromise with the judges on the proposals to limit custodial sentences . |
| 46 | • As The Bookseller went to press , it was reported that Mr Rushdie had had a meeting on Tuesday with John Smith , the Leader of the Opposition — the first at this level in the Labour Party since the fatwa was issued . |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | In addition , it was reported that MHC class II promoter occupancy in vivo is the same in the class II-positive Raji and in class II-negative RJ2.2.5 cells ( 21 ) . |
| 49 | It was reported that the dinucleotide-based roll angle value of GC step is one of the smallest found in all dinucleotides ( 1,6 ) . |
| 50 | There were already signs of the difficulties ahead in May 1990 when it was reported that in order to avert a row with judges and magistrates the Home Secretary was contemplating watering down the principle that punishment should fit the crime not the criminal . |
| 51 | By 1856 his results were impressive enough to be shown by Brewster to the Académie des Sciences in Paris , and later in Florence and Rome , where it was reported that the pope showed considerable interest in them . |
| 52 | The next day it was reported that Henry VIII was ‘ sorry for the death of Mr Redman his mason ’ . |
| 53 | In late 1987 in the USA it was reported that because of increasing criticism about lateness in domestic airline flights , one action taken was to increase the scheduled flight times for journeys , an action judged by the media to be more honest . |
| 54 | Tennis Courts It was reported that the tennis courts should come into the ownership of the District Council at the beginning of July . |
| 55 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
| 56 | However , it was reported that , as LEAs are always under pressure from schools to assign teachers to direct teaching posts , funding professional development teachers appeared to remain insecure as long as no external financial support was available from central government . |
| 57 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 58 | It was reported that Johnson Brothers has been repackaged and relaunched with more innovative and modern designs which have been greeted with enthusiasm by the trade . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | It was reported that loads of rubbish , mostly by the firm ‘ plant ’ had been dumped at this location . |