Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several villages were reported to have been completely destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks , and the towns of Sachkhere , Ambrolauri , Oni and Dzhava were badly damaged . |
| 2 | Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes . |
| 3 | Many detainees were reported to have been badly beaten . |
| 4 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |
| 5 | At least 30 people were reported to have been seriously wounded and a further 23 were arrested . |
| 6 | On May 8 , Islamic fundamentalist demonstrators were reported to have been violently beaten by paramilitary police and men in civilian clothes wielding clubs , during the largest demonstration ever held in Rabat , the Moroccan capital . |
| 7 | The great majority were said to have been either cured or relieved . |
| 8 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 9 | Under the new management of Andrzeja Strejlaua , and with several team changes , they were said to have been much improved in narrowly losing a friendly in Spain last month . |
| 10 | Thirdly , the three payments to which I have referred formed parts of larger quarterly payments , the other parts of which were agreed to have been correctly charged . |
| 11 | Thirdly , the three quarterly payments to which I have referred formed parts of larger quarterly payments , the other parts of which were agreed to have been correctly charged . |
| 12 | Some of the waxworks in Tussaud 's Chamber of Horrors were thought to have been badly damaged |
| 13 | In this case , workers who had been employed on a intermittent basis for a number of years were found to have been continuously employed ( albeit with temporary cessations due to shortages of work ) and thus , when finally dismissed , entitled to full redundancy compensation . |
| 14 | There have been a number of major scandals , the most significant being the Nye Bevan Lodge investigation in 1988 , in which residents were found to have been illegally deprived of their money , made to queue naked for baths , and subjected to other practices which included physical and sexual assault . |
| 15 | Twenty people were found to have been primarily using opioids other than heroin ( either methadone or dihydrocodeine ) . |
| 16 | Most of those who were killed had been brutally tortured , as were the few who survived abduction or ‘ disappearance ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , the Government has already agreed that the Directive applies , in a High Court action brought by college lecturers who were held to have been automatically transferred with their rights from the employment of local authorities to the new Further Education Corporations . |
| 18 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 19 | Although the arrest was a technical violation of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty signed by US President Jimmy Carter and Gen. Omar Torrijos [ see pp. 28629-30 ; 28793-97 ] , the US military intervention was reported to have been generally supported . |
| 20 | The blueprint was reported to have been well received by the President , although criticized by many senior military officers . |
| 21 | By 1988 it was reported to have been fully recovered . |
| 22 | Chimera was said to have been eventually slain by BELLEROPHON , riding the flying horse PEGASUS , who was able to fly through the air and dodge the monster 's blasts of flame . |
| 23 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 24 | A few plants are associated with historical lore such as the pink convolvulus or sea bindweed ( Calystegia soldanella ) , which is called ‘ the Prince 's flower ’ , because it was said to have been originally sown by Prince Charles in 1745 when he landed in Eriskay , and it is still growing on that island . |
| 25 | Radio and television reporting of the campaign was alleged to have been heavily weighted in favour of the NSF , although opposition parties were granted access to the government-controlled media . |
| 26 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 27 | Recent research , aided by aerial photography , has revealed traces of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century formal gardens of a type that was thought to have been entirely destroyed during the naturalistic craze of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Finally , although Neanderthal man had once been thought incapable of producing a reasonable range of vocal sounds , the fossil reconstruction on which this claim was based has been severely criticized recently ( Du Brul 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Mr Winick , of Canning Town , east London , was found to have been unfairly dismissed by the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers in Stepney , east London . |
| 30 | Thysia ansorgei is now placed in Thysiachromis , as Thysia was found to have been previously used for something else ( not a fish ) . |