Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 2 | A small group was reported to have stayed in the embassy in the hope of avoiding separation from friends or family en route from East Germany . |
| 3 | Tengiz Sigua , head of the Georgian government , was reported to have attended as an observer . |
| 4 | A second gunman was reported to have fired into the front row of the audience . |
| 5 | A Sendero Luminoso attack on a military base in the province of Satipo , 370 km east of the capital Lima , on Oct. 2 was reported to have led to the deaths of 21 people , including an estimated 16 guerrillas , four civilians and one soldier . |
| 6 | The order , put at about £500m , was reported to have come from a group of British fund managers acting through Barclays Bank in London . |
| 7 | Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest . |
| 8 | A national referendum on June 2 was reported to have resulted in a 93 per cent vote in favour of a new Constitution providing for a multiparty system , ending 13 years of military rule . |
| 9 | Farah Aydid was reported to have agreed to the deployment of UN guards and unarmed observers , but had rejected the sending of armed soldiers . |
| 10 | A special OAS mission , led by the former Colombian Foreign Minster Augusto Ramírez Ocampo , aimed at negotiating Aristide 's return to power , was reported to have arrived in the capital , Port-au-Prince , on Oct. 31 . |
| 11 | His annual conference reception , at the plush Grand Hotel in Brighton , was marred by what he was reported to have described as a ‘ media circus ’ of camera crews and reporters as former employees protested at their treatment . |
| 12 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 13 | Taylor was reported to have protested at the arrival in Monrovia in mid-February of 10 Nigerian air force fighter planes , and to have warned that he would continue to oppose Sawyer 's interim government and the presence of ECOMOG . |
| 14 | One person was reported to have died during the disturbances . |
| 15 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 16 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 17 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 18 | Ralph Steadman was said to have run down the street telling passers-by , including bewildered elderly ladies , that he had got ‘ one in Punch ! ’ |
| 19 | After the war the site for the statue was chosen at Terreiro da Luta , near the Fonte da Telha where the Virgin was said to have appeared to the little shepherdess . |
| 20 | At the beginning of time it was said to have arisen from the primeval waters , the waters of Chaos . |
| 21 | The fire was said to have started from the fridge-freezer . |
| 22 | Where employed , living-in journeymen got their keep and 6s ( 30p ) , which rate was said to have persisted since the 1730s . |
| 23 | In October , the army was said to have embarked on a campaign of intimidation , and tension was reportedly high . |
| 24 | He attended Clare School and later was said to have resided as a law student at the Inner Temple . |
| 25 | A small bomb was said to have exploded near the royal party 's hotel , causing no injuries . |
| 26 | At school it meant he was made to sit isolated in a ‘ naughty chair ’ at the front of the class facing the wall . |
| 27 | ( 5 ) A licensing board shall not entertain a request to declare the provisional grant of a licence final unless the person to whom the grant was made has given to the board such notice of his intention to make the request as may be prescribed . |
| 28 | More than five years after its flotation on the UK stock market , some see they brand values on which the agency was built becoming diluted by the stresses of being a plc . |
| 29 | ‘ I was dreading getting caught in the fall-out from this evening 's episode of the Rose-and-Dora show . ’ |
| 30 | There needs to be er a banking commission to take these functions away from a Bank of England performed so poorly er and was shown to have done by the er b by the Bingham report . |