Example sentences of "[verb] be told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These trends indicate how difficult it is for the market to translate what it has been told about the purchasing power of this group into reality . |
| 2 | No solicitor can sue for fees unless the client has been told about the remuneration certificate procedure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Northants ' Rhodesian-born allrounder Kevin Curran has been told by the TCCB that he must wait until Oct 1994 before becoming England-qualified for registration purposes . |
| 5 | She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 . |
| 6 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
| 7 | Now the company has been told by the DoE inspector , John Steers , that he had considered the possible unreasonable noise levels from trains on the Whitby to Middlesbrough railway line . |
| 8 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 9 | THE Conservative-controlled Stirling District has been told by the local MP , Michael Forsyth , that he is horrified at the way in which the council has handled a housing matter . |
| 10 | ‘ Jackson has been told by the specialist how close he came to losing an eye . |
| 11 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 12 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 13 | He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced . |
| 14 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 15 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 16 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 17 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 18 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 19 | Some patients , perhaps especially those who express anxiety about the risk of fire or who are known to have experienced a fire , may welcome being told about the fire precautions in the ward . |
| 20 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
| 21 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 22 | Nobody appeared to have been told about the need for translation , and there was no copy of the interpreter 's oath in the courtroom . |
| 23 | Lady Richelda is believed to have been told by the Virgin Mary to build a replica of her house in Nazareth . |
| 24 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 25 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 26 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 27 | He had known of the death of Oleg Demyonov , he had been told of the Soviet retaliation , he had been informed of the visit by the Consul to Lefortovo gaol . |
| 28 | Thackeray had been told of the death and of the anatomical examination after it was all over and he had spoken ‘ with warmth and sharpness ’ to Mr. Leech . |
| 29 | She had been told of the event and sent back ‘ a really beautiful letter , ’ says John . |
| 30 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |