Example sentences of "it was [adv] report [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was even reported that Humphrey Atkins was the only Cabinet member not to speak . |
| 6 | It was even reported that virtually the entire collection had been stolen … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was also reported that Syria was mediating in the dispute . |
| 14 | It was also reported that two of the three men on trial with Talb or members of their family had been seen with Dalkammoni . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the following week over 5,000 were repatriated , and it was also reported that another 1,500 had returned to Albania voluntarily . |
| 19 | It was also reported that another four deputies had resigned their seats when they were told that they would be identified by the commission . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | It was also reported that both the Finance and Publicity Sub-Committees were in need of new members . |
| 28 | It was also reported that May had spoken to neighbours about her fear of being attacked . |
| 29 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 30 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |