Example sentences of "are told [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , even Cabinet ministers may not hear of them until they are told on the morning of Budget day by the Chancellor . |
| 2 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 3 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 4 | With the nervous worry comes the loneliness : ‘ The house is quiet as the grave ’ , and the fear of the future : ‘ Though we have registered we are told at the American consulate it may last [ take ] years until we get the possibility of emigrating , the quota being overcharged . ’ |
| 5 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 6 | Contrary to what you are told as a novice , it does in fact pay to let your backside drop into a sitting position — this allows even the shortest sailors to lean back in a relaxed position using their weight as opposed to relying only on arm strength |
| 7 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 8 | In Book 6 of the Iliad , we are told of an embroidered robe carried by a procession of old women to the Trojan Athena . |
| 9 | Given the bodily likeness of the great apes to ourselves , and what we are told of the similarities of brain-size and structure , sensory apparatus , pregnancy span , and early cognitive competence , this is as it should be . |
| 10 | Many romantic tales are told of the king 's subsequent wanderings . |
| 11 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 12 | Yet the frustratingly small amount we are told about the marriage emerges in the form of Paulina 's anguished revelations rather than as the outcome of discussion and challenge . |
| 13 | APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM . |
| 14 | Women are told about the service when they have contact with the child protection team . |
| 15 | The jokes told about the Irish in England are told about the Belgians in France . |
| 16 | In Acts 21 , we are told about the strong feelings of the rank-and-file members of the church in Jerusalem . |
| 17 | They are told by the media , and everything else , that their main function in life is to be attractive . |
| 18 | This is a world where , in Walt 's own words , ‘ If you can dream it , you can do it , ’ and where , as we are told by the audio-animatronic family which takes us through history in the Carousel Of Progress pavilion , ‘ These are the best days of your life . ’ |
| 19 | Quite separate and distinct , so we are told by the professions concerned , are the pre-school facilities run by local education authorities-nursery classes . |
| 20 | We are told by The Observer that the hon. Member for Livingston is now running as part of a comic team with the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) — a wonderful pantomime horse — in seeking the job of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 21 | We are told by the Government that we must be prepared to tolerate environmental devastation and a senseless waste of more than £1,000 million worth of extra public money because the Ove Arup route is necessary if prosperity is to come from the regeneration of east London and the east Thames corridor . |
| 22 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 23 | Those hon. Members who are told by the Whips that their loyalty , obedience and voting record will all be taken into account may rest assured that those things are , indeed , taken into account , but in a totally different way from what one is led to believe if one wants to speak in the House from either Front Bench . |
| 24 | As we are told by the idea that ‘ the idling spirit by its own moods interprets , every where echo or mirror seeking of itself ’ we realise the poet 's argument that our subjective perception of an event is more important than the event itself ; our creative response to an action is all-important , therefore . |
| 25 | Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids . |
| 26 | Those coming into leadership are told in no uncertain terms what their task is to be . |
| 27 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 28 | The stories are told in a vivid and direct manner , and show a curiosity about the world and human behaviour and a practical and down-to-earth attitude . |
| 29 | And the stories are told in a language that fits , with plenty of Kirkby slang among the four-letter words . |
| 30 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |