Example sentences of "tells [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature . |
| 2 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 3 | But nothing you can point to in your present situation tells you that this situation is not one in which you are mistaken . |
| 4 | But Chinese philosophy ( well , the odd book about it , anyway ) tells him that great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin . |
| 5 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 6 | But Planck 's quantum principle tells us that each gamma ray quantum has a very high energy , because gamma rays have a very high frequency , so it would not take many quanta to radiate even ten thousand megawatts . |
| 7 | Experience tells us that many people who take up jogging , cycling , and other aerobic routines often sustain injuries , or simply give up after a short time . |
| 8 | As we saw in the last chapter , quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves , and that the higher the energy of a particle , the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave . |
| 9 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 10 | Indeed , general relativity tells us that any agency put in to oppose gravity must have energy . |
| 11 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |
| 12 | Officials refused to indicate the exact origin of the material but did say that " experience tells us that this kind of material comes from Eastern Europe " . |
| 13 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |