Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been told that prices go to the publishers six weeks before publication , but in this instance the price had changed three months previously . |
| 2 | " I want you to go away , because I 've been told that Timothy is in love with you . |
| 3 | I 've been told that men do n't like women , period . |
| 4 | Maloney said : ‘ I 've been informed that Lennox 's share will now be 75 per cent . |
| 5 | In effect , I have been saying that students ' academic freedoms are necessary conditions in the realization of the emancipatory promise of higher education . |
| 6 | I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot ! |
| 7 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 8 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 9 | She remembered being told that Nahum was dead . |
| 10 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 11 | We have been suggesting that career structures can serve well in the explanation of social behaviour which might otherwise appear to have little rationality . |
| 12 | However , the Supreme Council of National Security ( SCNS ) on Jan. 26 announced that all aircraft would be " confiscated " and their pilots kept in custody , stressing that " this policy would be applied to all parties which violate Iranian air , land or sea spaces " , and on the same day Baker confirmed that " we have been assured that Iran intends to remain totally neutral " . |
| 13 | In the Gospel we have been told that Jesus will bring about a new exodus ( 9:31 ) by his death and resurrection at Jerusalem : a release from a worse bondage and a more terrible death than that which befell the Israelites in Egypt . |
| 14 | We have been told that finances for health and safety will be found but we were never told from where that money would come from . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been told that Prince Charles sleeps in one room and his lady in another , ’ said a Korean worker at the hotel . |
| 16 | As we go to press we have been informed that AGI ( Electronics ) Ltd. and its subsidiaries KEF Electronics Ltd. , Meridian Audio Ltd. and Boothroyd Stuart Ltd. are in the hands of the receiver . |
| 17 | I can not comment on details of the negotiations because I do not know the details of what is actually happening today , but it is quite clear that we have been arguing that matters affecting foreign policy should continue to be decided under the auspices of intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 18 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 19 | So all that remained for him to do was to demonstrate that Lucy 's organ of Amativeness was extraordinarily well developed . |
| 20 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 21 | In Morgan , the defendants specifically alleged that they had been told that Mrs. Morgan could be ‘ turned on ’ only by struggle and resistance . |
| 22 | Based on pioneer work by Fogel and Gray , the notion that symptomatic carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis has not been challenged until recently , when it has been noticed that patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may malabsorb complex carbohydrate . |
| 23 | Already it has been demonstrated that groundwater abstraction is high relative to the theoretical renewable resource , and that much of the groundwater is contaminated with nitrate . |
| 24 | Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services . |
| 25 | In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care . |
| 26 | It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree . |
| 27 | Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position . |
| 28 | So far it has been assumed that levels of processing within the system operate serially , from the pattern recognition , to the lexical look-up , then onto syntactic and semantic analysis . |
| 29 | In particular it has been noted that agents have incentives to take actions which reveal their type early on in the play ; to self-screen . |
| 30 | It has been noted that CD must here be loosely recalling Dryden 's translation of the poem ( 1697 ) , because in that version Aeneas is made to say , after telling how he saw his father Priam slain , ‘ My hair with horror stood ’ , but there is no corresponding expression in the original Latin . |