Example sentences of "they have [be] told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they have been told to restore normal services ‘ without delay ’ , but no deadline is stipulated . |
| 2 | And discovering that they have been told lies all their lives . |
| 3 | They have been told that their claim may only amount to around £11,000 of their £15,000 as capital gains tax is likely to be deducted from the total . |
| 4 | We might say it is galling for people to hear such things when they have been told they will die in the wilderness , but at least the promises of God remain very much in force for their children . |
| 5 | They have been told by the local authority that they can not grow oilseed rape because the smell might upset Disney guests . |
| 6 | Of course they will go through all the natural stages of refusal to believe what they have been told , of anger and of unhappiness . |
| 7 | They have been told she may never fully recover . |
| 8 | They have been told they must take means tests . |
| 9 | THE Ipswich Witches speedway team are currently tracking under strength sides — and they have been told it is Ipswich Town FC who are partly to blame . |
| 10 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 11 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 12 | The Government said then that although they have been told that they are in the wrong , they will do nothing about it . |
| 13 | ‘ They have been told in writing . |
| 14 | Police believe four men may have taken part in the grudge attack though they have been told there may have been as many as 10 . |
| 15 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 16 | They have been told their son will be posthumously awarded another medal in Kuwait . |