Example sentences of "[be] told that the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 2 | I am told that the Under-Secretary of State gave an undertaking in the House of Commons that steps would be taken to warn claimants about the possible loss of benefits . |
| 3 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |
| 4 | The tips owners , who were not available for comment , have been told that the responsibility for making the tip safe is theirs , even though they had up until recently leased out the site to a local company which operated the tip . |
| 5 | Those problems were one cause of the delay that the hon. Gentleman described , but I have been told that the wait for that preliminary investigation is now down from six months to three months — the average in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Labour whips have been told that the offer of opposition co-operation has met with suspicion in the Government whips ' office . |
| 7 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 8 | We often come across fishkeepers who have been told that the solution to their green water problems is a particular filter or media . |
| 9 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 10 | EC officials have been told that the market for vining peas and other processed vegetables is a volatile one , and area payments for vining peas could encourage excess production . |
| 11 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 12 | He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead . |
| 13 | They do not need advice on how to gain similar wealth abroad , or to be told that the prospect of working on charities ' accounts for lower fees is not so abhorrent . |
| 14 | Well , if the weather stays fine you 'll find plenty of nice walks , and I 'm told that the house at Otters ' Bay is comfortable enough these days . |
| 15 | Right , now I 'm told that the report to next policy committee is coming anyway , it wo n't be ready for the next budget review , but you 'd like , erm , so , cou , perhaps you 'd better word your motion so that the officers completely clear as to what you 're proposing . |
| 16 | To their great disappointment , they were told that the gas in Bank mine was not clearing and their rescue would be delayed . |
| 17 | We were told that the reason for that outrageous situation was that , unlike the meat from all the other EC countries , our consignment was not colour coded . |
| 18 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 19 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 20 | Moreover , he is told that the date of the first review is related to the length of time the Secretary of State decides he must serve for retribution and deterrence , and that the judicial view as to this period is a factor taken into account in making the decision . |
| 21 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 22 | A true story is told that the steeple of Hull 's Holy Trinity church , is on a level with the road in Church Street , Sutton . |
| 23 | A Zen monk travelling through a village , was told that the head of a family he knew had died . |
| 24 | In relation to the adornments quoted by Bradshaw , Professor Elkin , one of the foremost researchers into Aboriginal culture , was told that the name for these was ‘ taramala ’ . |
| 25 | Some , however , refused to be impressed : in 1858 , when his fame was just beginning , a lady known to history only as Miss Marsh , and someone who occupied herself in converting Irish navvies , was told that the man in the railway carriage she was about to enter was Mr Spurgeon . |
| 26 | In a letter to the court , Barwick said he was told that the part of the Esk where he was caught was a free stretch and that there were some good catches to be had there . |
| 27 | The court was told that the admissability of confessions allegedly made by the accused will be challenged by the defence . |
| 28 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 29 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 30 | A jury was told that the announcement by the waste disposal and construction group , Shanks & McEwan , would have been a ‘ bombshell ’ , causing share prices to plunge . |