Example sentences of "was reported [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the month , it was reported to be ‘ selling well ’ ( Irish Times , 30 May 1985 ) . |
| 2 | She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected . |
| 3 | By November , Wigan were promising to scour the world for a cure , while Hanley in his enforced idleness was reported to be depressed and frustrated . |
| 4 | The uranium industry in South Africa , the world 's biggest exporter , was reported to be on the ‘ brink of collapse ’ as electricity generating companies ran down stocks and cut purchases . |
| 5 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |
| 6 | In 1651 Parliament appointed commissioners to sell Exmoor Forest , which was reported to be ‘ mountainous and cold ground , much beclouded with thick fogges and mists and … overgrown with heath and yielding but a poor kind of turf of little value there . ’ |
| 7 | The Fatah leadership was reported to be having an emergency meeting in Tunis as a result of the reports . |
| 8 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 9 | And the Reverend Armitage was reported to be obliged to leave the 11th green with lumbago while playing for Henley in its first match with Maidenhead . |
| 10 | He was reported to be paid £2,000 per day for his efforts — as much as some objecting organizations were likely to spend in total . |
| 11 | Sensational media and police reports in 1989 seemed to suggest an increased use of ‘ crack ’ among young people in parts of south London , Liverpool , and Birmingham — with attendant fears that this particularly dangerous substance might become widespread , as it was reported to be in parts of the United States . |
| 12 | Pub trade was reported to be quiet , though stronger trade was reported at W&D 's Milestone Restaurants and Taverns where profits were up 23% . |
| 13 | After Palace reached the semi-finals , Allison was reported to be in line for the job as American team manager during a summer contest against England . |
| 14 | He was reported to be still there . |
| 15 | Des Burke , Burmin 's Managing Director , was reported to be confident of dispelling opposition : ‘ Of course there are people jumping up and down … |
| 16 | Rory Finegan was reported to be considering going to the European Court . |
| 17 | But while bobbies were chortling throughout Greater Manchester police , Supt XXXX was reported to be ‘ incensed ’ . |
| 18 | One month later Glassford was reported to be completing the work of preparing nominal votes , and in this his lawyer , who lacked experience in such matters , was being helped by the agent of Lord Dundas , who clearly considered him still an ally , but on August 6th , Glassford removed such illusions by making it quite plain that he meant what he had said about his price for support , and denied that he was in any way pledged to Lord Dundas : |
| 19 | Crawford was reported to be doing excellent work , but as the inter-provincial matches were cancelled as the war worsened , the association 's finances worsened too : the Coach 's Fund was now deeply in debt . |
| 20 | Trading was reported to be good , if not euphoric , with every gallery selling and some moving as many as twenty works , mostly in a FFr 12,000 ( £1,200 ; $2,000 ) -FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) price range . |
| 21 | Hastings , at least , was reported to be delighted with the turn of events . |
| 22 | When topless photographs of her were published recently in a small-circulation New York magazine under the headline ‘ Backstage Peep Show ’ , she was reported to be claiming damages of $25m for ‘ irreparable damage to her reputation , career and personal image ’ . |
| 23 | In each case the patient was reported to be ‘ moribund ’ when the general practitioner arrived , and resuscitation proved unsuccessful . |
| 24 | It will also be of interest to investigate whether N-Oct 3 causes the transcriptional repression of the Herpes simplex virus immediate early genes in neuronal cells that was reported to be mediated by an as yet unidentified neuron-specific Oct-protein(s) [ 33 ] . |
| 25 | Lydon was reported to be impressed . |
| 26 | Moreover , King Hassan was reported to be ambivalent about the Shah . |
| 27 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 28 | Now he was reported to be at the Mamounia in order to work on a book entitled The Mighty and the Meek . |
| 29 | The duchess , too , was reported to be Conroy 's mistress , though without evidence . |
| 30 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |