Example sentences of "not tell [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The true picture was unfortunately not told to RW&P readers by the much-travelled Chris Thau in one of his recent reports . |
| 2 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 3 | If you are not told of the risk that you run , you might be able to complain of an unfair dismissal if you are sacked following a recurrence of the same conduct . |
| 4 | They were not told of the grounds for referral , and the case proceeded without them . |
| 5 | At first , Hendry was not told of the mystery woman 's mission but was informed when he noticed the beefed-up security at his matches . |
| 6 | The row deepened with revelations that the BBC board was not told of the tax arrangement and was not aware that the director-general job had not been advertised before Mr Birt was appointed . |
| 7 | Little John not told of deaths |
| 8 | We are not told of the use or otherwise of anaesthetics , nor of any benefits flowing from such research . |
| 9 | The Daily Mail stressed that this failed to console the victim 's distraught family , friends and workmates , her MP or the probation service , who were also not told of the killer 's threat . |
| 10 | Investors were not told of these connections before they purchased the shares . |
| 11 | She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted . |
| 12 | In one study , the essence of secretions from a female 's armpit were smeared onto the upper lips of other females who , perhaps fortunately , were not told of the origin of the smears . |
| 13 | ‘ Why was I not told of this before now ? ’ |
| 14 | Jack Cunningham , MP , who was touring the site at the time , was not told of the incident . |
| 15 | Again , her family were not told of the seriousness of the condition until a month later and just days defore she died . |
| 16 | I suspect that the mulberry sauce — we are not told for what manner of meat it was intended — may have originated somewhere in Asia Minor and was perhaps brought to Italy after the Venetian conquest of Constantinople in 1204 A.D. It could equally have come via Persia or Afghanistan where , as in Turkey , the berries of the white or silk mulberry are dried to provide a supply for the winter . |
| 17 | One angry passenger claimed travellers were not told about the bomb warning . |
| 18 | We are not told about the proceeds from the sale of the land in 1986/87 , but if £20,000 tax is at stake , expert professional advice could be worthwhile . |
| 19 | They were not told until 4pm on Friday , yet it was believed the leak started on Wednesday . |
| 20 | What we are not told in this benign dispensation is that the modest freedoms that permit us to oscillate between radical free-marketeering and limited state intervention apply strictly to the rich countries . |
| 21 | Alli , from Väsby , also " took Cnut 's geld in England " , while Ulfric , mentioned on a stone at Lingsberg , was paid two gelds , although we are not told by whom . |
| 22 | I could not tell to which world he belonged , the past or the present . |
| 23 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |
| 24 | His poem about Mesmer is a great puzzle to me , as I can not tell with any certainty what is his attitude to Animal Magnetism , whether mocking or endorsing , and this is so with other of his work , so that often one is led to wonder whether there is not a great pother of talk about nothing much . |
| 25 | ‘ We can not tell at all how the pol[itica]l situation will develop , ’ wrote Trevelyan to Morel in July 1915 , adding : ‘ There is no hurry . ’ |
| 26 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 27 | ‘ One can not tell about Anna without Constanza coming into it . |
| 28 | We can not tell in advance in what directions a specific lesson or block of work might lead — but we have to act as if we can . |
| 29 | She could not tell in the torchlight whether it was ink or blood . |
| 30 | Of what followed I can not tell in detail — I dare not put it into words . |