Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am advised that doctors at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital have confirmed that Carley could not have been transferred when the hospital test results showed that she had meningitis and the test results were available within one hour of Carley 's admission . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm told that earls do sometimes look like tramps . |
| 3 | I 'm told that humans prefer it that way . ’ |
| 4 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 5 | When I queried this , I was told that subscribers did not wish BT to divulge this information . |
| 6 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 7 | Puzzled , I was told that Acorns were that amount ‘ because of the energy that goes into them' , and ‘ anyway we really need cash at the moment' . ’ |
| 8 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 9 | ‘ I was told that Muggers ’ back had gone . |
| 10 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 11 | After two months ' silence , I was informed that ministers stood by their decision . |
| 12 | I was informed that buses from Livingston depot were deployed to operate journeys starting from Balerno . |
| 13 | You are warned that cats do not take kindly to walking to heel like a dog , and prefer to walk alongside you . |
| 14 | You are reminded that members are limited to two minutes in asking their questions . |
| 15 | We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down . |
| 16 | We are told that tanners used this gallery . |
| 17 | The Department of Transport has made a serious error , can we be assured that police authorities will receive financial compensation for the work that their forces are now havin have are going to have to carry out and there is a further matter which I have erm drawn to the attention of the Secretary of State for Transport in er correspondence , namely the need to establish a new and representative police authority for the British Transport Police . |
| 18 | We were told that sunglasses would not fit in any department of the store , and the carousel and mirror required would take up too much space . |
| 19 | In my biology lessons at school we were told that humans are the only mammals available for sex the whole time . |
| 20 | We were told that indications of public concern over proposed development strategies were also influential on the WO and the SoS ( a clear invitation to CPRW to turn up the heat ) . |
| 21 | It is the meaning they were likely to convey to the person to whom they were addressed that matters and not the meaning they might , on analysis , bear to a trained legal mind . |
| 22 | Traders say they were promised that Merchants Quay would be at the centre of a thriving complex of shops , restaurants and homes , but now they 're surrounded by offices , and cut off from customers . |
| 23 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 24 | Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems , for example , do not fare well , all considered ? |
| 25 | Nor should it be assumed that siblings who have lived apart , sometimes married , for many years have broken these profound childhood links which shaped their attitudes to each other . |
| 26 | Nor is it being suggested that students become embryonic philosophers or sociologists , adroit in handling the concepts and techniques of those disciplines . |
| 27 | It 's argued that psychoanalysts are motivated by the need to influence and control . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families . |
| 29 | It 's understood that officers in an unmarked car followed |
| 30 | It 's understood that allegations of indecency were made by a 17 year old trainee monk in Brixton . |