Example sentences of "[be] tell that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 2 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 3 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 4 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 5 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 6 | When the Cleveland affair was in the news in 1987/88 I wrote about becoming a father , which was the most wonderful experience — I felt completely liberated by it ; and then I was being told that all men were potential child abusers because they were so emotionally retarded . |
| 7 | The museum visitor who is told that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height simply has no idea where to go from that point onwards . |
| 8 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |