Example sentences of "were tell that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |
| 2 | ‘ The police were told that the truck was to be left alone until someone came and got it , ’ Myeloski went on , having regained his breath . |
| 3 | They were told that the prisoners were not there any more . |
| 4 | Although there was n't a separation announcement , we were told that the Prince and Princess of Wales would no longer live under the same roof . |
| 5 | Scarborough magistrates were told that the case involved a large-scale mortgage fraud alleged to have occurred between January 1985 and February 1988 . |
| 6 | Councillors were told that the Home Office would need to be sure that the additional bylaws were needed to cope with a specific problem before they could be approved . |
| 7 | For years Amber were told that the problem lay in the lack of a London release . |
| 8 | To their great disappointment , they were told that the gas in Bank mine was not clearing and their rescue would be delayed . |
| 9 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 10 | Later today , Mr Morrison and the three other members of the American delegation were told that the peace envoy plan was not supported by the majority of people in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | We were told that the WO was hoping such draconian action would not be necessary , although they were watching an appeal case in North Cornwall against the SoS for the Environment who was pursuing several revocation orders . |
| 12 | At this point we were told that the WO often found it difficult to get a clear indication of what was going on until it was too late to intervene without revocation being necessary . |
| 13 | On enquiry they were told that the other had been lent to a local restaurant when it suffered a power cut . |
| 14 | We were told that the Tia Juana bullfights were ‘ not of the best ’ and this we were quite willing to believe . |
| 15 | We were told that the water was required to serve an expected expansion of industrial activity on Teesside . |
| 16 | When the court sat we were told that the King had died then the court went out for a while . |
| 17 | In any case they were told that the count was waiting and the waiter indicated the man who stood in the shadows at the other side of the foyer . |
| 18 | If we were told that the interviewer used a tape-recorder , or that he was an expert shorthand writer , then we would know how these word-for-word quotations were made possible . |
| 19 | A year ago , we were told that the number would be 40 , which we all know meant 36 or 37 frigates and destroyers , or even fewer . |
| 20 | Subjects were told that the quality or safety of their driving was not being assessed and they were encouraged to drive as normally as possible . |
| 21 | On the opening day of the Scottish Fish Farming Conference in Glasgow , delegates were told that the business could face a chaotic period of boom and bust if production rates were not managed properly across Europe . |
| 22 | It was n't our best position , but the supporters of O M O V would n't listen , would n't consider and you 've heard Tom 's record of those sad events , and of course then we were told that the Party leader says it would be administratively impossible to put the register in place this year in any event . |
| 23 | The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged . |
| 24 | Ministers are considering an embarrassing U-turn after two disastrous periods of consultation in which they were told that the lists , to be drawn up by local authorities , would cause blight on thousands of acres and hit land and property values . |
| 25 | At a meeting on 5th June , the day before the exhibition closed , the judges were told that the assessors were ‘ proceeding assiduously ’ , and a week later reported their conclusions . |
| 26 | We visited this and were told that the timber buildings were of three periods , of course . |
| 27 | How would you allocate the treatments to the plants if you were told that the temperature gradient along the bench was |
| 28 | Magistrates were told that the defendant had been to Mr. White 's bank and had offered to pay the money stolen from them . |
| 29 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |