Example sentences of "are told [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , even Cabinet ministers may not hear of them until they are told on the morning of Budget day by the Chancellor . |
| 2 | For we are told at the start that the effects of their psychological traits are ‘ accidents ’ , as opposed to the main stuff of social explanation . |
| 3 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 4 | Many romantic tales are told of the king 's subsequent wanderings . |
| 5 | Yet the frustratingly small amount we are told about the marriage emerges in the form of Paulina 's anguished revelations rather than as the outcome of discussion and challenge . |
| 6 | Women are told about the service when they have contact with the child protection team . |
| 7 | APRIL 24 : Members of the British Racing Drivers ' Club ( BRDC ) , the parent company of SCL , are told about the deal for the first time at their AGM . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Answer guide : Fixed costs , we are told in the question , will be constant whatever the volume of sales ; it follows that fixed costs will be irrelevant to the decision as to which products should be produced and sold . |