Example sentences of "it [be] reported that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is reported that he never performed an operation without washing his hands . |
| 32 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 33 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 34 | In the vestry book for 1752 it is reported that Charles Wallis , Sexton , ‘ appeared at the vestry and being strictly examined touching the bounds of the churchyard do acknowledge and declare to the best of his memory that : |
| 35 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 36 | This is what is meant when it is reported that a result , according to a particular test , is significant at , say , the 0.001 level . |
| 37 | It is reported that they are being given Namibian identity cards to enable them to vote for pro-South African parties in the elections . |
| 38 | Clearly we need to know more , for example , it is reported that the red leafmonkey ( Presbytis rubicunda ) in northern Borneo , like other primates , eats soil , usually from termite mounds , but the soil has been analysed only chemically with no clear-cut conclusions : what about the micro-organisms and their products ? |
| 39 | It is reported that everyone in the area has lost a relative as a direct result of pollution . |
| 40 | Contrary to popular belief , it is reported that over half of suspected insider traders are members of the public , which places some doubt on the common perception of city fraudsters being involved in the majority of cases ( Quality of Markets Quarterly Review April-June 1990 ) . |
| 41 | It was reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and lost equipment . |
| 42 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
| 43 | It was reported that she disturbed the prowler when she arrived back unexpectedly at her family 's Melbourne home . |
| 44 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 45 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 46 | It was reported that , while incarcerated at Reading 's morbid gaol , Woolridge once again affirmed his guilt , and formally stated that he accepted his terminal punishment as the logical outcome . |
| 47 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 48 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , it was reported that at one time dust and water were falling together , as mud , and a thickness of fifteen centimetres accumulated in only ten minutes . |
| 49 | It was reported that Red Rhino had debts of more than £300,000 . |
| 50 | It was reported that signs about dog fouling , and notes for motorists who park on the green pointing out that the car park should be used , are now available . |
| 51 | The scolds ' cage was an unusual punishment — in Cornwall at least — although it was reported that ‘ the ladies of Penzance were formerly privileged with the like comparatively elegant mode of punishment , a cage ’ . |
| 52 | As early as 1907 it was reported that there was a frequent association between hyperglycaemia , hypertension , atherosclerosis and obesity ( Elliott , 1907 ) . |
| 53 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 54 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 55 | At this same meeting it was reported that Charles Vial had presented 10 copies of his plan of 19 March 1790 , for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine , for which thanks were to be transmitted by the secretary . |
| 56 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |
| 57 | At a meeting on 1 April ( Stone , Gretton , Penn , Topham , Vial , Huntingford ) it was reported that the Master of the Horse had declined ‘ as such ’ being president . |
| 58 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 59 | It was reported that , in the absence of accommodation , many visitors slept in barns . |
| 60 | Finally , in the week that amid the freezing fog and snow of eastern France 11 passengers miraculously emerged alive from the shattered hull of an Airbus A-32 , it was reported that … |