Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] have [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 2 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During negotiations between Syria and Israel the head of the Syrian delegation , Muwaffaq al-Allaf , was reported to have raised immediately the issue of UN Resolution 242 , stating that Israel continued to distort the interpretation of the resolution by claiming that it did not demand a withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 9 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 10 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 11 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 12 | THE house where ex-Goon Peter Sellers was born has taken on a new lease of life as a Chinese restaurant . |
| 13 | The Irish defender was furious when he was judged to have given away a late penalty for tripping Andy Sinton . |
| 14 | He stumbled into the blackness and made his way to the wreckage , where Miller was meant to have found out the location of the Home Guard HQ . |
| 15 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |
| 16 | Hislop where , within the same article , Private Eye was held to have committed both a statutory and a common law contempt in exerting improper pressure on Sonia Sutcliffe to abandon her proceedings . |