Example sentences of "[coord] it [was/were] reported that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seventies , McQueen 's appearances became more intermittent , and it was reported that he had turned increasingly temperamental , rejecting more scripts than he was prepared to accept . |
| 2 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
| 3 | The remaining Panguna employees were later evacuated by road , and it was reported that the PNG Army was retreating from the countryside in order to concentrate upon defending the island 's towns . |
| 4 | An audit of Stroessner 's financial affairs had been ordered by the government in March , and it was reported that this would reveal details of a " secret account " into which Stroessner and his former Treasury Minister , Gen. Cesar Barrientos [ for whose death see p. 36687 ] , had deposited millions of dollars from tolls and special petrol tax payments . |
| 5 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
| 6 | Navarro Wolff declared AD/M-19 to be in a state of emergency and it was reported that its leaders had been concentrated in one place to resist arrest . |
| 7 | Chile was formally admitted as a new member , and it was reported that China and Iran had also expressed a wish to join the organization . |
| 8 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |