Example sentences of "[be] told in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're told in the report that small firms with less than twenty people have a fatal and major accident rate forty percent higher than firms employing over a thousand . |
| 2 | Included in the recommendations is for a two day training course , costing fifty thousand for two thousand places it 's excellent except we 're told in the report that we ca n't get people on courses however good they is es especially among , er , small companies . |
| 3 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 4 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 5 | Answer guide : Fixed costs , we are told in the question , will be constant whatever the volume of sales ; it follows that fixed costs will be irrelevant to the decision as to which products should be produced and sold . |
| 6 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 7 | In other words , he would first have to be told in the language of paragraph 10.4 , ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so … |
| 8 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 9 | That 's what we were told in the branch , it lapses after twelve months |