Example sentences of "report to have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Jan. 7 President 's family reported to have escaped to Abu Dhabi .
2 Jan. 26 Siyad Barre reported to have fled the capital in a tank , to an unknown destination .
3 José Francisco Pena Gómez of the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , reported to have come third with 25 per cent of votes cast , called on May 17 for national understanding and the formation of a government of reconciliation , to end the polarization of the country into followers of the two major candidates , whose personalities had dominated the campaign .
4 Two Labour members of the Knesset , Abd al-Wahab Darawshah and Muhammad Mi-ari , were reported to have met Yassir Arafat , Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , in Tunis in mid-December 1989 .
5 His recent work with Bryan Ferry was reported to have caused particular upset to Morrissey .
6 The National Liberation Movement ( MLN ) claimed responsibility for the explosion of a bomb outside the US embassy which was reported to have caused no damage .
7 A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura .
8 You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped .
9 US officials , fearful of a growing budget deficit , were reported to have emphasised that any rise in German interest rates would reduce the chances of further cuts in US interest rates , and thus place additional strains on the economy .
10 Another respected ex-Cabinet minister , Fowler , was reported to have declined a request to join .
11 Membership of the PDS was reported to have declined from 2,400,000 in 1989 to 250,000 in May 1991 .
12 The standard of living was also reported to have declined , with private consumption having decreased by 3.9 per cent in 1990 and 4.6 per cent in 1991 .
13 Among those who were reported to have declined to be considered was New York Governor Mario Cuomo , one of the party 's most charismatic figures , who had earlier resisted a powerful campaign to induce him to run for the presidential nomination .
14 A group of People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) officers was reported to have formed a secret group backing the reinstatement of the former party chief , Zhao Ziyang .
15 Solomon and Rogachev were both reported to have expressed concern about China 's apparent volte-face over military assistance to the Khmers Rouges .
16 Gorbachev was also reported to have expressed his support for South Korea 's bid to join the UN , describing North Korea 's suggestion of a shared Korean seat as " unrealistic " .
17 Later in the month Iliescu was reported to have expressed a readiness for Romanian-Moldavan unification .
18 Both groups were reported to have expressed their willingness to support the Lakas-NUCD coalition in the new legislature .
19 On Dec. 19 , the leader of the group , Mr Justice Telford Georges , was reported to have expressed concern over the 45 nominations , at a meeting with Moi .
20 The Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC ) , the body representing English Nature , Scottish Nature and the Countryside Commission for Wales , is reported to have expressed its concern that many of its environmental recommendations on granting exploration licences have been ignored .
21 State grain reserves were opened in Anhui and Jiangsu while medical teams fought water-borne diseases such as dysentery and cholera , which were reported to have affected up to a quarter of the flood victims .
22 Libya was reported to have announced emergency aid of $60,000,000 , and the United Arab Emirates $40,000,000 .
23 The military was reported to have remained neutral .
24 Tengiz Sigua , head of the Georgian government , was reported to have attended as an observer .
25 Elsewhere in the country , the MNR was reported to have stepped up its attacks , killing 45 people , mostly Mozambican troops and Zimbabwean lorry drivers , in an attack on a protected convoy on the Tete highway on Feb. 11 .
26 Israel was reported to have stepped up military activity in the " security zone " in early October , including the shelling of villages and the overflight of Lebanese territory by the Israeli airforce .
27 Interior Ministry troops , who on June 6 had sealed border crossings between Uzbekistan and southern Kirghizia , had fought to prevent up to 15,000 Uzbeks armed with makeshift weapons from crossing into Osh oblast to join the fighting on June 7 , while gangs of Kirghiz , similarly armed , were reported to have massed on their side of the border .
28 In early April , thousands of Kurdish refugees , many dying from starvation , were reported to have massed along the Iraq-Iran border near Nowsud .
29 Gelbard was reported to have warned US officials in September that he would be the target of an assassination attempt , which Bolivian officials believed was due to take place on Dec. 10 to coincide with the anniversary of the extradition of former Interior Minister Luis Arce Gómez to the US on drug trafficking charges [ see pp. 37487-8 ] .
30 Storms and flooding at the end of August were reported to have killed more than 150 people and made thousands homeless in southern Bangladesh .
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