Example sentences of "[was/were] tell at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 2 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 3 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 4 | Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association . |
| 5 | THE right to roam should be enshrined in Swedish-style legislation , Scottish ramblers were told at the weekend . |
| 6 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 7 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 8 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 9 | Frank Sinatra was told at the weekend that the four pasta sauces named after him are being withdrawn . |
| 10 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 11 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 12 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 13 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 14 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 15 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |