Example sentences of "[be] told about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund : |
| 4 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 5 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 6 | No solicitor can sue for fees unless the client has been told about the remuneration certificate procedure . |
| 7 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 8 | All the soldiers who served in Bosnia have been told about the possibility of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the atrocities they have seen . |
| 9 | Ghislain Pascal of Survival International says the Amerindians who live in the area have not been told about the logging plans and deplores the fact that " Samling — which has devastated the lands of the Dayak peoples in Sarawak — should ever be able to negotiate a deal without social and environmental impact assessment being carried out . " |
| 10 | Nobody appeared to have been told about the need for translation , and there was no copy of the interpreter 's oath in the courtroom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 13 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 14 | At a meeting in the Kremlin last Saturday , General Vladimir Kryuchkov , head of the KGB and one of the newest members of the politburo , implicitly admitted the lies that had been told about the role of the secret police in Stalin 's repression . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Women are told about the service when they have contact with the child protection team . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 19 | The nation should be told about the chaos , poverty and hardship that the Government have created in deprived areas throughout the country . |
| 20 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 21 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 22 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 23 | There are many ways in which the work-force can be told about the relocation . |
| 24 | More than 70 delegates at the Edinburgh conference were told about the dumping of unsafe products on emerging eastern European democracies . |
| 25 | And when Cheryl 's holiday was over and her Brownie Pack met again , the Pack were told about the rescue of the pony by semaphore , and agreed that Cheryl had passed her Semaphore Challenge with flying colours . |
| 26 | Oh we Oh I suppose we were told about the war but being young and heedless we would not take it all in . |
| 27 | But oh we were told about the war and what was happening between the Germans and whatnot . |
| 28 | None of the children were told about the wedding in advance and the first Charles knew of his new stepmother was when the headmaster of his prep school informed him |
| 29 | Staff were told about the job cuts last night . |
| 30 | 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 . |