Example sentences of "were tell by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 2 | The authorities have been given a record £181 million for 1992/3 to develop Aids services and were told by the NHS management executive yesterday to increase supplies to surgeries . |
| 3 | ‘ The road to Palestine ’ , we in Beirut were told by the PLO , lay through Jounieh , that pleasant Maronite port halfway between Beirut and Byblos . |
| 4 | At that time we were told by the GA lobby that such a solution was not acceptable to GA flyers because of cost , weight/performance penalties , design difficulties and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ We were told by the teacher it was a mortal sin to touch them P of course we all did ! |
| 6 | At a meeting at the end of 1989 between Navan Resources and the islanders , the company were told by the islanders that they did not want gold mining . |
| 7 | Newspapers , he adds in the chapter , were told by the Prince 's friends that Diana was a ‘ meglomaniac . ’ |
| 8 | Only a month ago we were told by the Engineering Council that technology lessons under the national curriculum were a ‘ farce ’ — and teachers did n't have a clue what they should be doing in the classroom . |
| 9 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 10 | They were told by the people next door that Mr Brownlow had moved to the West Indies six weeks before . |
| 11 | They were told by the police that there was reason to fear a breach of the peace if they proceeded and , when they attempted to push through , they were arrested for obstructing the police . |
| 12 | And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible . |
| 13 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were told by the judge , ’ You knew the risk you ran , you asked yourself if the game was worth the risk and you said yes it was . ’ |
| 16 | Members were told by the chief environmental health officer , Hugh O'Neill , last night , that he feared there were still aspects which suggested there could be radio-active emissions from the plant . |
| 17 | The original exhibition 's UK tour , planned for January , was abandoned when the organisers were told by the DTI that a UN embargo suspended cultural exchanges and visits between UN nations and Serbia or Montenegro . |
| 18 | One resident , John Morell , 30 , said : ‘ We were told by the council that we had to be out within 48 hours . |