Example sentences of "who [was/were] reported to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely enough , it was Factory Records who were reported to be the front runners , but these rumours were strongly denied by Factory . |
| 2 | On April 1 King Birendra , at the request of Prime Minister Marich Man Singh Shrestha , dismissed nine ministers who were reported to be unhappy with the government 's tough line . |
| 3 | By mid-June these included : 5-7,000 Ethiopian refugees in Yemen , including 1,700 naval personnel ; 3,000 refugees from Assab in Djibouti ; 300,000 people who returned to Sudan from camps near Gambela [ see below ] ; 130,000 Ethiopians in the Sudanese town of Kassala who were reported to be non-Tigreans who had recently left Tigray ; and 30,000 Ethiopians who had crossed into Kenya at Moyale . |
| 4 | According to Foster , in the cotton districts of south-west Lancashire union leadership fell into the hands of political radicals who were reported to be drinking the prime minister 's health in consequence ! |
| 5 | Among the guests the Mamounia while the Shah was settling in were Henry , Count of Paris , the pretender to the French crown , who was finishing his memoirs there ; the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole , then a member of the coalition government of Rhodesia , but soon , like the Shah , to be swept away by revolution and Hassans friend , former King Simeon of Bulgaria , who was reported to be there on some business . |
| 6 | His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction . |
| 7 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 8 | Moves to resolve differences on the CFE treaty were said also to have been encouraged by Soviet President Gorbachev who was reported to be keen to clear remaining obstacles in the way of a US-Soviet summit meeting [ see pp. 37945 ; 37979 ] . |
| 9 | José Cespedes Zarza was sworn in as Commander of the Air Force on Nov. 20 in succession to Gen. Dionisio Cabello , who was reported to be under arrest for refusing to hand over his post . |