Example sentences of "[noun prp] it [be] report that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year . |
| 2 | In May it was reported that Jacinto Granda de Laserna , a section head in the PCC 's department of revolutionary orientation and former editor of the Young Communist journal Juventud Rebelde , had become editor of the party daily , Granma . |
| 3 | Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun . |
| 4 | Later in July it was reported that factories in some regions , facing the unaccustomed pressure to make a profit , were refusing to lend out their workers to provide the usual help in bringing in the potato and vegetable harvests . |
| 5 | At the end of August an indefinite freeze was placed on the repatriation of foreign companies ' profits and dividends ; however , in September the rules were relaxed to allow transfer of normal profits after 60 days , and in November it was reported that the freeze was to be lifted under pressure from international corporations . |
| 6 | In November it was reported that the European Communities had agreed to proposals for Namibia to join the Lomé Convention , under which the country would secure an annual beef quota , at an estimated price 40 per cent higher than the world market , which would make Namibia the second largest beef exporter among the African , Caribbean and Pacific countries ( after Botswana ) . |
| 7 | In early November it was reported that fighters affiliated with the Iranian-backed ( Shia ) Hezb-i-Wahdat faction were engaged in bloody clashes with government forces loyal to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud . |
| 8 | In October it was reported that Max Veillard , a French mercenary and adviser to Taki wanted for his part in the August coup attempt , had been shot dead by police . |
| 9 | In late October it was reported that there was disagreement between Osborne and his deputy , Benjamin Chalmers , over the former 's support for independence from the UK . |
| 10 | In September it was reported that a trade co-operation agreement had been signed with Zimbabwe . |
| 11 | In September it was reported that South African lawyers would be brought to Swaziland to prosecute 15 people charged with forming a party to overthrow the government . |
| 12 | NRA forces were reported to have committed atrocities against the civilian population in Soroti district in the east , where the government had been fighting the Uganda People 's Army ( UPA ) , led by Peter Otai ; in September it was reported that 30 NRA personnel had been arrested for the killing of 60 civilians in the area . |
| 13 | At the beginning of March it was reported that seven FARC guerrillas and three Brazilian soldiers had been killed in border clashes near the Brazilian town of Tabatinga in the Amazon region . |
| 14 | At the beginning of March it was reported that the epidemic had spread to Ecuador where 20 cases were registered , including one death , that of a woman living near the border . |
| 15 | In Angola a programme co-ordinated by the UN to deliver 110,000 tonnes of food to 1,900,000 people affected by war and drought in nine central , southern and eastern provinces was barely under way due to poor donor response — by mid-December it was reported that only Switzerland and the Netherlands had made donations . |
| 16 | In late 1987 in the USA it was reported that because of increasing criticism about lateness in domestic airline flights , one action taken was to increase the scheduled flight times for journeys , an action judged by the media to be more honest . |
| 17 | On 7 April it was reported that , " last Saturday a body of sailors , to the number of 400 to 500 assembled at North Shields … and proceeded from thence to Sunderland with colours flying before them and at the cross there read a paper setting forth their grievances and a demand for immediate redress . |
| 18 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
| 19 | In mid-November it was reported that the country 's First Deputy Chairman of the Council of State ( Vice-President ) and Minister for the Armed Forces , Col. Iafai Camara , had been placed under house arrest , accused of supplying arms to Senegalese separatists . |