Example sentences of "been told [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have been told that a formal request will be made to Britain to seize the general 's dosh . |
| 2 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 3 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 4 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 5 | Other workers frightened that they might become victims of a Maxwell-style rip-off have been told that a personal plan is ‘ safer ’ . |
| 6 | I 've been told that a 486SX machine is faster than a corresponding 386DX machine . |
| 7 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 8 | Landsbergis , meeting Gorbachev in Moscow at the latter 's request on June 26 , had been told that a moratorium would signal a return by Lithuania to its pre-March 11 status , and Landsbergis claimed that this meant that negotiations would formally be between the Soviet Union and one of its constituent republics . |
| 9 | I have been told that a landowner can allow caravans to park on his land for up to 28 days per year without having to obtain planning consent . |
| 10 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 11 | An inquest 's been told that a husband was seen in Great Yarmouth the day AFTER his wife and two children were killed at their Gloucestershire home . |
| 12 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 13 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 14 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 15 | A court has been told that a teenager who attacked a wheelchair-bound pensioner in his own home was high on the drug Ecstasy . |
| 16 | An inquest has been told that a Jehovah 's Witness injured in a road accident died after relatives told doctors not to give him blood . |
| 17 | A jury has been told that a prisoner who threw hot oil at prison officers during a disturbance at a jail was serving a life sentence for killing a policeman . |
| 18 | Earlier the inquiry had been told that a four-platform layout for Newton , which could have prevented the tragedy , had been discounted on grounds of cost by the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 19 | During a two-day hearing , they had been told that a town centre disturbance had broken out after the quarter-final Scottish Junior Cup match between Beith and Vale of Leven on 28 March last year . |
| 20 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |
| 21 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her This report from Chris Throup . |
| 22 | An inquest has been told that a five year girl chocked to death on a plastic bottle plug . |
| 23 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 24 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 25 | The nuns , from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Daventry , had been told that the food poisoning in nearby Bedworth had been caused by Salmonella enteriditis . |
| 26 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 28 | I have been told that the only solution is to run with the hubs locked out all the time , but is there a better solution ? |
| 29 | I have been told that the torque converter locks up in low low . |
| 30 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |