Example sentences of "tell by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt they are being told by their elders , as a friend informed his grand-daughter , to turn left at Gibraltar ! |
| 2 | I was told by their breeder that I was n't giving them enough protein . |
| 3 | Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police , who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness , their training shoes and anoraks , go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing . |
| 4 | These discoveries have a bittersweet taste for the many mothers who have been told by their doctors that they themselves were at the root of such problems — because they were over-anxious , inexperienced , nervy , overindulgent or whatever . |
| 5 | Many men suffer from this driver ; as children they were often told by their parents : ‘ Be strong ! |
| 6 | Mr Kawawa referred to the ‘ confusion ’ which would result from people being given information which contradicted what they were being told by their own government through Government and party channels . |
| 7 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
| 8 | At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now . |
| 9 | If we look at it another way , we can suggest that many physics students feel that they must accept what they are told by their departments and that they find it difficult to challenge what they are told . |
| 10 | On quite a number of occasions ethnographers have been told by their informants that : " we marry our enemies " . |
| 11 | The elder informed my colleague that they were not lost , but had been told by their parents to stay in the store and play on the escalators while they went to a cafe for a coffee . |
| 12 | They had reserved seats on the 2.30pm train but had been told by their travel agent that the 1.30pm train also took APEX travellers . |
| 13 | UNIVERSITY lecturers are being told by their union to inform colleagues if they get over-involved with their students . |
| 14 | In the class of primary school pupils interviewed , only four children were told by their parents when to go to bed . |
| 15 | MEMBERS of the radical black Pan Africanist Congress were told by their leader yesterday to brace themselves for a bitter struggle as they celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre with a fiery demonstration of militancy in the township where the killings occurred . |
| 16 | Smallest and least distinctive small European bird of prey , most easily told by its flight , habitat and general habits . |
| 17 | Much the smallest sea tern , and readily told by its always white forehead , its black-tipped yellow bill , its orange-yellow legs and its quicker , jerkier flight , hovering like a marionette . |
| 18 | The largest swift of the region , with a 21-inch wing-span , easily told by its pale brown plumage , with white underparts crossed by brown breast-band . |
| 19 | Few have read the story as told by its inventor . |
| 20 | However , one farm which has only young 1992 fish has been told by its bankers that they do not believe the fish will ever be accepted for sale , even if tested clean , because of the public perception of the oil spill . |
| 21 | One woman who wanted to wear a sari had been told by her husband ‘ who do you think you are — Mrs Gandhi ? |
| 22 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 23 | Susan Stocks , 37 , of Wallasey , Merseyside , was told by her local Midland branch she could keep the cash after three months if no one claimed it . |
| 24 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 25 | Mrs. O'Brien was , she said , first told by her husband about the proposed legal charge in May or June 1987 . |
| 26 | On the previous evening she had been told by her MP , Sir Ralph Grunte , that she reminded him of ‘ the young Alma Cogan ’ , but she had no idea who Alma Cogan was . |
| 27 | Mrs MacIllarry said she 'd been told by her mother that Jobson had once phoned saying he would kill her and then himself . |
| 28 | Mrs O'Brien here at her home in Slough , was told by her husband that the loan back in nineteen eighty seven was only for sixty thousand pounds , the bank did n't correct this or give her independent advice . |
| 29 | I have tried to see the Earl , but was told by his secretary that all questions about the use of Ferngrove Park by the public are dealt with by Mr. Bishop , the estate agent . |
| 30 | Johnson was told by his lawyers that he , the churchwardens , the Parochial Church Council and LGCM ( all of whom had applied for the faculty ) were likely to lose the case . |