Example sentences of "[noun] were report [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 2 | Wells calculates that as approximately two-thirds of teenage pregnancies going to full term were reported to be unplanned in a study in South West England , effective contraception therefore has the potential for avoiding 76,000 unwanted teenage pregnancies each year . |
| 3 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 4 | Late on Jan. 11 Lithuanians were reported to be flooding into Vilnius in their thousands to reinforce cordons around key buildings . |
| 5 | Efforts by Pakistan and Iran to broker a peace settlement with the mujaheddin on the basis of the UN plan were reported to be in progress as of mid-1991 . |
| 6 | On Feb. 12 the Tadjik Communist Party ( CP ) headquarters was besieged by rioters who succeeded in setting part of the building on fire ; the Tadjik Supreme Soviet Presidium declared a state of emergency and a night-time curfew in Dushanbe ; and , fearing a pogrom , Armenians were reported to be fleeing the city . |
| 7 | As more loyal forces were moved into the area , the rebels were reported to be short of supplies , and forced to rely upon food donations from a local religious group . |
| 8 | Plans to change the definition of homelessness to rooflessness were reported to be under consideration , but when the review body reported in November 1989 no changes in either the definition or the law were recommended . |
| 9 | Although the hunger strikes ended , many workers were reported to be continuing on strike . |
| 10 | However , many Serbs were reported to be disappointed with the refusal to introduce a more democratic political system in Yugoslavia 's largest republic , since all but staunch followers of the republic 's President , Slobodan Milosevic , were removed from the electoral lists , and three candidates from the Serbian LC 's umbrella organization , the Socialist Alliance , who were known only for their support of Milosevic , were selected to contest the presidential post in addition to Milosevic himself . |
| 11 | BOSNIAN Serbs were reported to be poised to overrun the besieged Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa yesterday , the same day as the first full peace talks took place . |
| 12 | TROOPS were reported to be patrolling the streets of the Romanian capital , Bucharest , yesterday as evidence mounted of a massacre in the town of Timisoara at the weekend and East and West moved to denounce the brutal clampdown by the regime 's security forces . |
| 13 | Troops were reported to be leaving Moscow , according to Sobchak , on Yazov 's orders . |
| 14 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 15 | Soon two-thirds of the activists of the Provisional IRA in Ulster were reported to be in prison either awaiting trial or convicted . |
| 16 | Combined anti-terrorist units of troops , gendarmes and police officers were reported to be patrolling the main towns . |
| 17 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 18 | The audiences were reported to be ‘ impressed by the author 's warmth and zest for life ’ . |
| 19 | After the demonstration , television film crew members , who only yesterday morning were reported to be ‘ under surveillance , ’ were lecturing to their own crowds of supporters . |
| 20 | Hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be on the move throughout October and November in search of food . |
| 21 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 22 | In the north , after a wave of determined attacks against the regime , forcefully repelled , 1 million Kurds were reported to be in flight , trudging through the mountains , hoping to find sanctuary in Turkey and Iran . |
| 23 | Some Commonwealth leaders were reported to be resentful of suggestions that aid be tied to democratic practices . |
| 24 | In mid-November , however , Kurdish leaders were reported to be preparing for a fresh economic blockade and an imminent government attack on Kurdish strongholds . |
| 25 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 26 | An estimated 40,000 names on a revised electoral roll were reported to be suspect . |
| 27 | On Sept. 24 , thousands of civilians were reported to be fleeing Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties in north-western Liberia , where battles were raging between NPFL and Ulimo forces . |
| 28 | However , Sobchak and Samsonov reached an agreement that armed forces would not enter the city , although Vitebsk KGB and Pskov military divisions were reported to be moving towards Leningrad on Aug. 20 , according to Lithuanian radio . |
| 29 | Of these 133 new Majlis members , it was estimated that some 55 were supporters of Rafsanjani and that many of the remainder were reported to be independent candidates likely to align themselves with the President 's faction . |
| 30 | Shareholders were reported to be concerned about the company 's loss of credibility . |