Example sentences of "reports said that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , unofficial reports said that a British atomic submarine was on its silent way to the Falklands . |
| 2 | The girl had not been seriously hurt in the shooting , suffering only a superficial wound , and police reports said that she was ‘ fortunately wearing a large quantity of underclothing which , no doubt , prevented a more serious wound ’ — which , unless the young lady 's underwear was armour-plated , must cast serious doubt on the power of the weapon employed . |
| 3 | The critical part of one of the reports said that the Government had some 30 or 40 different schemes in operation . |
| 4 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 5 | Western reports said that Japan was waiting for signals from the USA and international finance bodies before committing itself . |
| 6 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 7 | Official reports said that a 15-strong Armenian gang had attempted to ambush the 11 soldiers , who were waiting to escort a train from Yerevan to Kafan ( in southern Armenia ) through the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan . |
| 8 | Press reports said that residents welcomed the operation , which involved the Army ( seen as relatively impartial ) as well as the police , who had been widely accused of ignoring or even actively encouraging Inkatha attacks . |
| 9 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 10 | Unofficial reports said that three Mkhedrioni militiamen and two soldiers had been wounded , and that all 30 Mkhedrioni in the camp had been arrested . |
| 11 | Independent reports said that at least 170 had died . |
| 12 | Early reports said that he had been replaced by Col. Elias Tutsoane Ramaema , another Military Council member . |
| 13 | On May 6 , independent reports said that students had evacuated the university after it was stormed by gendarmes , with resulting numerous casualties . |
| 14 | Press reports said that a proposal for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar was discussed , but there was no official confirmation . |
| 15 | Reports said that while US preference for a higher ceiling of between 40 per cent and 50 per cent [ see p. 38211 ] had been favoured by Kuwait , none of the other members of the Security Council had so far expressed public support . |
| 16 | Reports said that the appointment of al-Hithi , formerly Minister of State for Oil and a senior official at the Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization ( MIMI ) , suggested the continued domination of the oil sector by MIMI [ see p. 38165 ] . |
| 17 | Reports said that more than 400 Iraqis and Palestinians had been deported across the border to Iraq since June 9 , in contravention of Gulf ceasefire regulations [ see pp. 38164-65 ] and of the fourth Geneva Convention prohibiting the forcible repatriation of civilians who feared persecution . |
| 18 | Some reports said that police fired on stone-throwing demonstrators with live ammunition and rubber bullets in Algiers on June 4 ; this was denied by the authorities , who said the police had been fired on . |
| 19 | Press reports said that Ghozali had promised opposition parties that the controversial electoral laws introduced in April would be reviewed by the transitional government . |
| 20 | Reports said that Canada , one of the strongest advocates of sanctions , had resisted US and UK pressure to recommend a full resumption of international lending to South Africa . |
| 21 | Reports said that a Japanese- and Canadian-backed proposal to establish a G-7 working group to follow up the implementation of the latest arms control proposals was opposed by France which was against any move to grant the G-7 a permanent institutional role . |
| 22 | Local press reports said that former President Traore had been hurriedly moved from the Kati barracks , where he had been held in detention . |
| 23 | The reports said that the bandit groups were largely made up of demobilized soldiers . |
| 24 | Some reports said that up to 50,000 people had taken part in the demonstrations . |
| 25 | Reports said that the government had given assurances that there would be no retrenchment in the first year of privatization and that workers would be entitled to buy up to 10 per cent of the shareholding in their factories . |
| 26 | Reports said that France had opposed the US-German declaration , claiming that it would duplicate the pan-European network of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) . |
| 27 | Unconfirmed reports said that other issues discussed and left unresolved were the question of the sale of Chinese missiles to Pakistan and Indian misgivings about recent proposals for a South Asian nuclear-free zone . |
| 28 | In the last Israeli raid of 1991 , on Dec. 17 , Israeli jets attacked a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP-GC ) base in the eastern Bekaa Valley ; press reports said that four people were wounded . |
| 29 | Other reports said that some republics , notably Kazakhstan and Russia , had also agreed to sell arms to Taiwan and Yemen . |
| 30 | In Mozambique early reports said that drought had affected at least 3,000 hectares of maize in Gaza province . |