Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] reported that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and lost equipment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was reported that she disturbed the prowler when she arrived back unexpectedly at her family 's Melbourne home . |
| 4 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was reported that Red Rhino had debts of more than £300,000 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | As early as 1907 it was reported that there was a frequent association between hyperglycaemia , hypertension , atherosclerosis and obesity ( Elliott , 1907 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was reported that , in the absence of accommodation , many visitors slept in barns . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | Finally , in the week that our nation , while stifling under the weight of depression , looked to the Chancellor and his Budget for hope in crawling out of the pit of fiscal horror and penury , it was reported that : |
| 22 | It was reported that the association will be sharing in the Alresford Eurofest Celebration Day in July . |
| 23 | In the seventies , McQueen 's appearances became more intermittent , and it was reported that he had turned increasingly temperamental , rejecting more scripts than he was prepared to accept . |
| 24 | Finally , in the week that the IRA bombed Whitehall , it was reported that … |
| 25 | Earlier this year it was reported that Miss Steel 's books had sold ‘ more than 100 million ’ . |
| 26 | It was reported that the couple had made love for real , and that the scene had to be drastically cut by the censors . |
| 27 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 28 | When it was reported that a considerable number of young children in the house were not eating their breakfast , which consisted of porridge and bread , he recommended that , for children under sixteen , the same diet should be given for breakfast as for supper . |
| 29 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 30 | On May 13th at a meeting of a special sub-committee , it was reported that various articles of furniture had been found in the master 's apartments . |