Example sentences of "told by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PHILLIP McCallen received a body blow shortly before today 's Coca Cola North West 200 when he was told by the clerk of the course Billy Nutt that he would have to start from the back of the grid in the superbike race . |
| 2 | I am told by the probation service , social workers , educationists , and those involved in the youth offenders institute in my constituency that the turning point comes in the late teens , when such offenders get a regular girl friend and decide that it is about time that they acted a little more responsibly . |
| 3 | Thomas Cromwell expressed pleasure when told by the Lord Chief Justice in 1531 that proclamations were ‘ of as good effect as any law made by Parliament or otherwise ’ . |
| 4 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 5 | The story of the Passover is told by the paterfamilias in response to the question of the youngest member present : ‘ What is the meaning of this night ? ’ |
| 6 | First the Killinchy Club are awarded a date in 1994 to run a World Championship 500 Motocross Grand Prix , and are then told by the Ulster Centre chairman that this is not on . |
| 7 | I asked the College if they could help , but was told by the then-bursar : It is College policy not to help fellows with housing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 10 | Branson was warned by another member of the party that this would not go down well and , sure enough , was told by the butler the following morning that he was no longer welcome . |
| 11 | At that time we were told by the GA lobby that such a solution was not acceptable to GA flyers because of cost , weight/performance penalties , design difficulties and so on . |
| 12 | Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids . |
| 13 | The authorities have been given a record £181 million for 1992/3 to develop Aids services and were told by the NHS management executive yesterday to increase supplies to surgeries . |
| 14 | This book offers the English language reader an introduction to the history of this struggle , as told by the women involved . |
| 15 | The story of the operation , in all its farcical mystery , was best told by the officers and crew of the CIA proprietary airline called in to help on November 22nd . |
| 16 | How generous he was to acknowledge his own defeat , when he asked one of his rivals -Parrhasius — to draw back the curtain and unveil the portrait underneath , and was told by the artist that the curtain itself was painted . |
| 17 | A very disappointed Cray Research Inc has been told by the US Department of Energy that the $72m joint venture on developing software for the forthcoming T3D massively parallel processor , agreed by the outgoing Bush administration late last year ( CI No 2,041 ) , is not going ahead after all . |
| 18 | They were told by the judge , ’ You knew the risk you ran , you asked yourself if the game was worth the risk and you said yes it was . ’ |
| 19 | Told by the judge , Lord Coulsfield , that she could not be compelled to testify , Heather Hepburn , 29 , of Argyll Street , Alloa , said she was willing to give evidence . |
| 20 | As told by the ladies who know them best … ! |
| 21 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 24 | Quite separate and distinct , so we are told by the professions concerned , are the pre-school facilities run by local education authorities-nursery classes . |
| 25 | She was told by the Chief Constable of the district ( who was accompanied by the Inspector who became the respondent in the appeal ) that a meeting could not be held on the spot , but could be held some 175 yards distant , around the corner . |
| 26 | The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly . |
| 27 | Farhad Sepabhodi was told by the Americans that the official 's visit to the Shah must be kept absolutely secret . |
| 28 | Parliament was , however , peremptorily told by the King not to proceed with the matter , because the Company 's affairs were being dealt with by the Crown . |
| 29 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 30 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |