Example sentences of "[coord] has [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platt was left out of Juventus 's opening match last Sunday and has been told he may only play in Juventus ' home game . |
| 2 | Telefonica de Espana SA now says it will fight the court ruling ordering it to sell one or other of its holdings in Chile 's two main telecommunications companies — and appeal to international law if necessary : Telefonica has 43.6% in Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA and 20% of Entel Chile SA , and has been told to sell one within 18 months . |
| 3 | He still wishes to pursue a medical career , and has been told that he will almost definitely get into medical school . |
| 4 | The country effectively run by fourteen Tory backbenchers a Prime Minister who was told by his Party and has been told by his , by the country consistently to get rid of a chancellor who is totally and utterly incompetent . |
| 5 | The authority plans to overspend this year and has been told to cut ten million pounds . |
| 6 | Ken Stewart , MEP for Merseyside East , has met EC commissioners and has been told that German and French objections to Merseyside gaining a large slice of the European structural fund are no longer a problem . |
| 7 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 8 | Mrs Falconer is facing compulsory redundancy and has been told that she could stay on the staff if she accepts demotion to ordinary lecturer — a post already held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 9 | He was given a life sentence by the judge and has been told by his lawyer that such a term in Thailand means for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | She said she believes she knows who shot the cat , but has been told by police that unless there were witnesses there was not a lot that could be done . |
| 11 | He has been in hospital since November , but has been told he must shortly return to prison ( see Replies , this page ) . |