Example sentences of "[be] told by the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 2 | The American base of RAF Mildenhall has not yet been told by the Pentagon that it can spend the necessary cash on the show , which last year attracted 406,000 people . |
| 3 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 4 | As we are told by the idea that ‘ the idling spirit by its own moods interprets , every where echo or mirror seeking of itself ’ we realise the poet 's argument that our subjective perception of an event is more important than the event itself ; our creative response to an action is all-important , therefore . |
| 5 | We are told by the Government that we must be prepared to tolerate environmental devastation and a senseless waste of more than £1,000 million worth of extra public money because the Ove Arup route is necessary if prosperity is to come from the regeneration of east London and the east Thames corridor . |
| 6 | We are told by The Observer that the hon. Member for Livingston is now running as part of a comic team with the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) — a wonderful pantomime horse — in seeking the job of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 7 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 8 | Blake was not surprised to be told by the Doctor that its origin and purpose remained unknown . |
| 9 | One resident , John Morell , 30 , said : ‘ We were told by the council that we had to be out within 48 hours . |
| 10 | I , I ca n't understand the secretariat allowing this to come out were told by the president that it was not possible to use this money unless it was grant related . |
| 11 | The Muzak reached a gap as she was about to knock on the door and she could hear he was being told by the hotel that his credit was n't good . |
| 12 | Both Soul and Brief History include Stephen Hawking 's anecdote about being told by the Pope that scientists might properly study the universe after the Big Bang , but that the bang , or Creation , itself , was the province of God . |
| 13 | How generous he was to acknowledge his own defeat , when he asked one of his rivals -Parrhasius — to draw back the curtain and unveil the portrait underneath , and was told by the artist that the curtain itself was painted . |
| 14 | At school I was told by the matron that I would die if I continued to lose weight . |
| 15 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 16 | It was , therefore , open to misrepresentation and special pleading , to accepting what it was told by the party that secured or took the initiative . |
| 17 | And I was tel telling , I did n't realize that erm not getting a fa erm a squint patched was erm as dangerous as it is , as , I was told by the ophthalamagist that she could , he could lose his eyesight if he had n't erm did n't get his eye patched because they will stop using the eye , and the eyesight would go . |