Example sentences of "reported to [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 | For older people just over half the refusals for grants are reported to be because the basic criteria are not satisfied . |
| 3 | Now new owner Chris Knight is reported to be in financial difficulties . |
| 4 | Belgium giants Interbrew — Stella Artois to you and me — are negotiating in Czechoslovakia , Poland and Hungary and all the other normal suspects are also reported to be continuing talks east of the former iron curtain . |
| 5 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 6 | He is reported to be negotiating the complete withdrawal of the 1,500 Soviet military advisers . |
| 7 | A group of English players are reported to be bitter at having been left out of the squad for next week 's world team championships , and inevitably , the name of the game for the next couple of days in the Open , which starts today , will be to try to make monkeys of those who omitted them . |
| 8 | Knighton is reported to be ready to abandon his takeover bid . |
| 9 | Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food . |
| 10 | In Tambov town there were reported to be as few as three Bolsheviks on the very eve of the October Revolution . |
| 11 | She was reported to be deeply depressed and feeling dejected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Warrington , redundant this weekend , are reported to be keen on signing the Bridgend rugby union half-backs Kevin Ellis and Aled Williams . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Up to 400 Cuban military advisers are reported to be at fortified bases in northern Panama , where they have been training the the militia of the Dignity Battalions , the Washington Times said yesterday . |
| 18 | Timisoara and Arad were reported to be on a general strike . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The World Bank was last year reported to be in the throes of an anguished debate between its environmental unit and its energy department over the best way of enlisting Third World support for curbing greenhouse gases . |
| 22 | Most Iraqi cities are reported to be without electricity or telephones . |
| 23 | Critics of the regime were reported to be openly venting their displeasure ‘ at new laws , announcements of the government about future Party buildings , the planned social legislation , school reform , etc. , ’ and pointed to ‘ the higher taxes , the restrictions on personal freedom , the ‘ threat to the Christian philosophy ’ , the promotions in the civil service almost solely on the basis of attitude and Party membership without any consideration of ability , the activity of the Gestapo , the ‘ reign of terror ’ ( Schreckensregiment ) , the ‘ corruption ’ ’ , and the mismanagement of Party hacks and bosses , and were said to be conveying their discontent and doubts ‘ to ever wider circles ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Some companies are also reported to be paying several months ' salary in advance of the election . |
| 26 | The Fatah leadership was reported to be having an emergency meeting in Tunis as a result of the reports . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet since January he has faced four different boats fielded by Koch — first Jayhawk , then Defiant and , more recently , America and Kanza — all reported to be an improvement on each other , at a cost to the America Foundation of some £38.25 million . |
| 29 | Southampton went on to collect three more bookings , but they still had the remarkable talents of Le Tissier and Shearer , who is reported to be a summer target for United . |
| 30 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |