Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been told that these big old country houses are beautiful . |
| 2 | We are urgently searching for a set — I 've been informed that some surviving sets are twisted — and if it means that we have to look abroad for a new set in Poland than so be it ! |
| 3 | Power 's generating monopoly , ministers have been warned that more power stations must urgently be brought on stream to meet projected demand . |
| 4 | However , there is a more serious side : some finalists have been warned that some employers might refuse to recognise their degrees . |
| 5 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 6 | Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes . |
| 7 | Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets . |
| 8 | However , I have been informed that some , even most , regions of British Telecom disregard the instruction . |
| 9 | I have been informed that this once happened , with the death of a number of hounds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been told that any decision wo n't be made until the overall allocations decision is made on capital allocations for 1993/94 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Balcombe said : ‘ We have been told that this is not nearly enough but it is all we have got and I think we are lucky to have it . ’ |
| 15 | I have been told that this decision was partly in response to lobbying by feminist groups . |
| 16 | I have been told that this might happen . |