Example sentences of "[been] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 2 | I have been told by a friend that this is an early AA key , and that it is quite valuable . |
| 3 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 4 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 5 | The American base of RAF Mildenhall has not yet been told by the Pentagon that it can spend the necessary cash on the show , which last year attracted 406,000 people . |
| 6 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 7 | Natasha , who speaks very little English , has been told by an interpreter that she is in England for a holiday and may one day return to Sarajevo . |
| 8 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 9 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 10 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 11 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 12 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |