Example sentences of "is told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kapuscinski is soon in a still hairier place , further south , where he is told of the South African intervention . |
| 2 | One story is told of drovers who , at the end of a long drive , having sold their cattle , would go to the beerkeller to celebrate , but before they did , they would tie the money from the sale around the dog 's neck , secure in the knowledge that no matter how drunk they became , their money would be safe until the morning ! |
| 3 | A story is told of a water bull who valiantly fought an Each-Uisge to the death in order to save the life of a servant girl who tended the needs of fairy cattle . |
| 4 | A lovely story is told of a young herdsman who saw one of the Gwraggedd Annwn rowing on a lake in a golden boat . |
| 5 | One story is told of a man who saw a leprechaun bury a purse of gold in a field of ragwort . |
| 6 | The story is told of Lutey , a Cornish fisherman , who rescued a mermaid stranded in a tidal pool and returned her to the ocean . |
| 7 | 1 to 2 pm : The rest of the Cabinet is told of the impending statement . |
| 8 | An interim order ( and thus its freezing effect ) lasts until 28 days after the court is told of the report of the creditors ' meeting referred to below . |
| 9 | The story is told of two top executives from different agencies who would wave to each other , one from his chauffeur driven Jaguar and the other from his Porsche , as they passed on the M4 when buzzing up and down to important clients . |
| 10 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 11 | A wonderful story is told of a concert programme that was prepared using desktop publishing by a fairly well-known organisation . |
| 12 | The story is told of Guru Nanak that even as a boy he argued that the ancient Hindu ceremony of tying on the sacred thread did not prevent men from acting wrongly . |
| 13 | Waitress wins after tribunal is told of staff party fight |
| 14 | Murder trial is told of obsession with student |
| 15 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 16 | ‘ Lady ’ Betty pursued a career of hanging and flogging well into the 19th century and Declan Donnellan 's account of her life is told with a distressing mixture of savagery and sentiment ; the hangwoman herself is portrayed by Sally Dexter with hateful harpiness relieved by startling moments of tenderness . |
| 17 | The tale is told with the utmost economy , as if nothing unusual was taking place . |
| 18 | The classic example of this was William Marshal , the fourth son of a Wiltshire baron , the story of whose successful career on the tournament field is told with loving detail in L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal . |
| 19 | ‘ In essence ’ , say Trestle , ‘ it 's a tragedy , but the story is told with all the wit , humour and theatrical panache that Trestle has produced before ’ . |
| 20 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 21 | shows a faith that persists even when he is told to be quiet by the crowd . |
| 22 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 23 | Again and again Moses is told to " speak to the people of Israel " . |
| 24 | A student who is told to " make notes on the diplomatic arrangement that followed the Napoleonic Wars " may use these simple techniques to create the following structure : |
| 25 | Er we we have we just make sure that everything is told to the prospect on the phone . |
| 26 | THE PILGRIM FATHER STORY is told for visitors at the WORKSHOP MUSEUM . |
| 27 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |
| 28 | Although this seems clever when one is told about it , a few minutes-hands-on experience demonstrates that it is not AI at all — it is a parlour trick . |
| 29 | But suppose he is told about the new discovery chloroform , and says ‘ I 've no time for such newfangled nonsense ’ . |
| 30 | A classic story is told about the unveiling of a vast poster showing a dish piled high with baked beans . |