Example sentences of "be told [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 2 | The nation should be told about the chaos , poverty and hardship that the Government have created in deprived areas throughout the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
| 5 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 6 | There are many ways in which the work-force can be told about the relocation . |
| 7 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 8 | ‘ Charter train operators must be told of the reprieve so they can approach BR about running trains this summer to test the water . |
| 9 | The ITN report said that unions would be told of the job losses today , when annual profits are published . |
| 10 | At the start of the following week , James Callaghan , then a young Parliamentary Secretary , was among a group of Ministers outside the Cabinet who were summoned to be told of the Cabinet 's decision . |
| 11 | The patient should be told of the mode of address used in that particular hospital for professional staff . |
| 12 | The suspect must also be told of the ground of arrest at the time or as soon as is practicable thereafter ( s.28(3) and D.P.P. |
| 13 | But perhaps for the particular plot you have arrived at , the particular murder you have in mind , a good deal will have to be told to the reader about pre-murder events . |
| 14 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | There 's one case , however , where a buyer can be told at the inception of a matter that the lease will provide that it ca n't be assigned without the lessor 's licence : the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and one or two other bodies insist on such a covenant in all their leases . |
| 16 | If you want one , we can do it at the same time as the valuation , at a reduced fee , but we must be told at the outset . |
| 17 | If you require payments on account of costs or in advance of disbursements , or you reserve the right to raise hourly rates during the lifetime of the case , the client must be told at the outset of the case . |
| 18 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 19 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 20 | In other words , he would first have to be told in the language of paragraph 10.4 , ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so … |
| 21 | Can the history of contemporary American art be told in the form of a museum exhibition without reference to land art , film , performance and other less tangible art forms ? |
| 22 | Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born . |
| 23 | The Home Office Code under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 [ PACE ] requires that as soon as a suspect arrives at a police station , they should be told by the custody officer of their right to independent , free legal advice . |
| 24 | From juvenile Great Spotted and Syrian it can be told by the gap between its black cheek stripe and black nape , and no black stripe bordering red crown . |
| 25 | Well , I 'm sorry , if I was in my workplace I would n't be happy representing a member and then be told by the employer , I 'm not required to tell you why you 've lost your appeal and I do n't think this is something we should do within our own organization on our own members . |
| 26 | Blake was not surprised to be told by the Doctor that its origin and purpose remained unknown . |
| 27 | Coonts , whose experiences include flying A-6 Intruders from the carrier USS Enterprise during the Vietnam War , relates this aerial odyssey across America as it can only be told from the cockpit ! |
| 28 | There is a story told against Jimmy Davidson which , in fact , should be told against the game in Ireland . |