Example sentences of "[det] [noun] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Mrs Melburn , the parson 's wife … she seems a motherly figure , in a way , but that bit ’ — she pointed to the page of a letter that was on the table — ‘ that bit tells you why they came this way . ’ |
| 2 | Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 's Peer Prince ( 3.10 ) has already won twice this season and could make that advantage tell over Josh Gifford 's Zamil . |
| 3 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 4 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
| 5 | Since the , that methodology tells us that although employment has been cut erm in the first quarter of this year on our calcul er calculations in many regions of the economy with the south east particularly hard hit well in one region , the West Midlands , for the first time we 're seeing an increase in employment . |
| 6 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 7 | The visit to Osterlind 's neighbour Renoir is another story told with many variations . |
| 8 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to tell us why over the last year the unemployment record of his Government is by far the worst of any in the European Commuity ? |
| 9 | Will he take this opportunity to tell the House and the country whether he favours such a ban ? |
| 10 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 11 | The cost is exorbitant and the Government should take this opportunity to tell that to local authorities , especially in relation to students , although there are other categories to which we may refer in other clauses and amendments . |
| 12 | ‘ We hope that the British and Irish governments will take this opportunity to tell Iran that such behaviour is not acceptable . ’ |
| 13 | This process was one that we 'd enjoyed the public inquiry process for over fifty years and it would be most helpful if the minister at some point in his er later remarks perhaps could take this opportunity to tell the house that the Conservatives do not intend to side step the public inquiry stage of any future boundary proposals , European or I 'd be glad to give up . |
| 14 | to be delivered in one statement show you what the chances are you 'll be doing it anyway but not erm what you are actually doing purpose you 'll always be followed by a tentative benefit always be followed by cheque standing or in this case tell me how does that . |
| 15 | I 'd like to spend erm a few minutes , hopefully not too long because I 'm er known for talking for hours and hours when it comes to our company and our product , but hopefully just a few minutes telling you about our approach to developing an open accounting system . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , though this description tells part of the truth , it is greatly oversimplified . |
| 17 | Briefly explain what the result of this experiment tells you about the function of the title in this poem ( see p. 56 ) . |
| 18 | Another witness told the coroner she was overtaken by a red car and then the Escort and while she did not feel the cars were racing , they were travelling ‘ fairly quickly ’ and she thought they were together . |
| 19 | I got Idan on this tape telling me he loves me . |
| 20 | This chapter tells us what it 's like . |
| 21 | This chapter tells you how to do it . |
| 22 | This chapter tells the story of a collaborative curriculum project which involved pupils and teachers from two schools in Dudley , in the West Midlands . |
| 23 | The figures for percentage sedentary people at the beginning of this chapter tell only part of the story . |
| 24 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) has spent much of his time over the past few months telling industry about his policies . |
| 26 | Of course this figure tells one nothing at all about why the material has the strength which it has and whether it ought to be stronger . |
| 27 | This command tells DOS to look for a match in C : \DOS , then in C : \WINDOWS and so on . |
| 28 | This command tells it to set up a storage area called Employees and to allocate space for Employee Number , Name , Department and any other items specified . |
| 29 | You can use this command to tell the computer to type the line numbers automatically for you when you are entering a program ( or part of a program ) . |
| 30 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |