Example sentences of "be told that [noun pl] " 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 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 3 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable . |
| 7 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 8 | Two days earlier the family had been told that tests at Darlington Memorial Hospital confirmed Mr Watson was terminally ill . |
| 9 | I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot ! |
| 10 | Workers at Rosyth Royal Dockyard have been told that jobs could be cut by a third over the next twelve years . |
| 11 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 12 | BANBRIDGE Council has been told that anglers have given up fishing at Loughbrickland Lake because the fish stock has been completely destroyed by cormorants . |
| 13 | I 've been told that men do n't like women , period . |
| 14 | We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down . |
| 15 | We are told that tanners used this gallery . |
| 16 | To be told that animals are treated cruelly when they are caused unnecessary or unjustified pain is of little use unless we are told what counts as unnecessary or unjustified pain . |
| 17 | He would be heard out , and he would see the shaking heads , and he would be told that facilities and staff were tied down , knotted down , on Trident . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm told that earls do sometimes look like tramps . |
| 19 | I 'm told that humans prefer it that way . ’ |
| 20 | We were told that sunglasses would not fit in any department of the store , and the carousel and mirror required would take up too much space . |
| 21 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 22 | Voters were told that sanctions would be stepped up , unemployment and crime would escalate and the black population would rise in revolt . |
| 23 | ITN broadcast a short item about the race on the News at Ten and viewers were told that applications from prospective crew members were being invited . |
| 24 | In my biology lessons at school we were told that humans are the only mammals available for sex the whole time . |
| 25 | We were told that indications of public concern over proposed development strategies were also influential on the WO and the SoS ( a clear invitation to CPRW to turn up the heat ) . |
| 26 | As part of a larger study in which asthmatic outpatients were told that assessments were being evaluated , 24 asthmatic patients ( not experienced trialists ) completed a paper and pencil diary and the Asthma Question Box at home , twice daily for 14 days . |
| 27 | I just do n't like being told that boys and men are bad . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 30 | The public will not be outraged if it is told that precedents will be confined to their facts . |