Example sentences of "be told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 2 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 3 | Should children be told about so-called sexual deviations , or will that put ideas into heads where there were none before ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , let's say I reckoned Mrs Wilson needed to be told about struggle and hard work . |
| 5 | Teenagers ( and children ) should always be told about future events involving them moving house , or father going into hospital for an operation so that they have time to adjust to the idea . |
| 6 | Much as the ‘ restaurant-program ’ has to be told about conventional behaviour in restaurants , so the ‘ newspaper-reader ’ has to be told about road-accidents , earthquakes , hijackings , and the like . |
| 7 | Much as the ‘ restaurant-program ’ has to be told about conventional behaviour in restaurants , so the ‘ newspaper-reader ’ has to be told about road-accidents , earthquakes , hijackings , and the like . |
| 8 | The other worry is whether the child will or will not be told about his or her origin . |
| 9 | It had meant so much to her and she longed for his compassion again , but it was too late now for him to be told about Angel . |
| 10 | ‘ It is disgraceful the chancellor should get this money and that no one should be told about it . ’ |
| 11 | Arsenal boss George Graham is annoyed that it took so long for him to be told about Limpar 's current ankle injury . |
| 12 | There are many ways in which the work-force can be told about the relocation . |
| 13 | Inevitably there is a little story to be told about this . |
| 14 | They believed that for once the truth should be told about the difficult life Diana has led and , for the most part , still leads . |
| 15 | A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it . |
| 16 | Some were judged trustworthy enough to be told about Samantha 's abduction . |
| 17 | Although the Home Office operates an assisted visit scheme , whereby wives can claim the cost of one visit every 28 days , women need to be told about this system in order to use it . |
| 18 | A similar story of the colonization of the commodity by culture could surely be told about pop videos ( Frith and Horne 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 20 | In the Spanish sunlight his skin looked darker , more deeply tanned , and she would not have had to be told about his title . |
| 21 | The nation should be told about the chaos , poverty and hardship that the Government have created in deprived areas throughout the country . |
| 22 | If it is to be implemented by the Scottish Office , we should be told about it . |
| 23 | ‘ Is there anything I could be told about it ? ’ |
| 24 | A similar story can be told about Foston parish not very far away . |
| 25 | She had no wish to be told about her needs . |
| 26 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 27 | CLEVELAND 'S Transport 2,000 group will be told about the new Middlesbrough to Liverpool through train services by Richard Hast , marketing manager for Regional Railways , at its meeting tomorrow . |
| 28 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 29 | The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace . |
| 30 | But the story of closure can not be told beyond this point without analysis of the other psychiatric hospital managed by the AHA with which its fate was so closely bound . |