Example sentences of "it be [adv] reported that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reliably reported that such a machine could be heard five miles away . |
| 2 | It is well reported that Johnny Marr 's biggest regret is the filming of the BBC2 Sight And Sound gig . |
| 3 | It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth . |
| 4 | It was officially reported that 36,000 possible offenders had surrendered by a Nov. 10 deadline imposed in August by the Supreme People 's Procuratorate . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it was officially reported that on Aug. 17 three Croatian police helicopters which had been dispatched to Gracac , a town near Knin where Serbs had taken over the police station and were distributing arms , had been intercepted en route by two Yugoslav air force jets and forced back to base . |
| 6 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 7 | It was generally reported that the events in Mashad — Iran 's holiest city , close to the border with Turkmenistan and Afghanistan — had involved some 2,000 rioters acting with a degree of organization . |
| 8 | It was even reported that Humphrey Atkins was the only Cabinet member not to speak . |
| 9 | It was even reported that virtually the entire collection had been stolen … |
| 10 | It was also reported that he had the audacity to join the Special Constables , but all pretence was blown asunder when he was noticed pawning stolen articles by a fellow officer . |
| 11 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 12 | It was also reported that the Governor of Cauca read out the faxes/cables received from Amnesty International to the several thousand Indians who marched on the city of Popayan . |
| 13 | It was also reported that US proposals to conduct reciprocal verification measures prior to the conclusion of START had been accepted in principle by the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt . |
| 15 | However , it was also reported that Neamy was an Iraqi dissident who had lived in Sweden for several years and had returned home the previous year to pay a brief visit to his family . |
| 16 | It was also reported that Syria was mediating in the dispute . |
| 17 | It was also reported that two of the three men on trial with Talb or members of their family had been seen with Dalkammoni . |
| 18 | It was also reported that the Slovak government had threatened to proclaim the primacy of Slovak law over federal law , unless its demands for more substantial devolution were met . |
| 19 | It was also reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was forced to halt relief operations in mid-December because of disputes with the two sides . |
| 20 | It was also reported that the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation of contract payments to the General Dynamics Corp. and the McDonnell Douglas Corp. , the contractors responsible for building the A-12 . |
| 21 | In the following week over 5,000 were repatriated , and it was also reported that another 1,500 had returned to Albania voluntarily . |
| 22 | It was also reported that another four deputies had resigned their seats when they were told that they would be identified by the commission . |
| 23 | It was also reported that Osborne had considered requesting the dissolution of the Legislative Council halfway through the current term because of his dissatisfaction with the performance of his ministers . |
| 24 | At the Honolulu meeting it was also reported that the South Korean and US officials had agreed to make greater efforts to negotiate a peace treaty with the North . |
| 25 | It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids . |
| 26 | It was also reported that the US attorney for the District of Columbia was conducting a preliminary inquiry to determine whether transactions at the bank had involved criminal wrongdoing . |
| 27 | It was also reported that , in late July , the special prosecutor investigating the Iran-contra scandal , Lawrence Walsh , was considering bringing criminal conspiracy charges against former President Ronald Reagan and some of his advisers . |
| 28 | It was also reported that the Odinga faction met legal difficulties when attempting to have the results of its internal elections validated , the Matiba group having lodged a complaint with the registrar of political parties questioning the legitimacy of the Odinga congress . |
| 29 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 30 | It was also reported that both the Finance and Publicity Sub-Committees were in need of new members . |