Example sentences of "told [that] [pron] can " in BNC.

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1 We were told that one can not reconstruct something that is not there .
2 What many need is to be told that they can achieve something more constructive than a profit from others ' financial predicament .
3 Please do not call the EUCS Help Desk directly , as you will be told that they can not provide a service .
4 Also , I seem to remember , although ca n't be sure , being told that you can now produce Data Only versions of the tape following a Change Request that Simon put to Ray Hawi on 8 May .
5 First you are told that you can take as long as you like to put the counters in the jar .
6 to do it , and it starts a lot earlier , it starts when you 're at school and the fact that that women are told that you can do , like home economics an , and sewing and all that , and then they 're not encouraged to go into engineering courses .
7 Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will .
8 The occupier must be told that he can refuse to allow the search and that anything seized may be used in evidence .
9 Having been told that there can be a contract either for the sale of specific goods or for the sale of unascertained goods , one might ask , ‘ Is there not a third category ?
10 Her mother has been told that she can not be cured in this country , so with family and friends she 's launched an appeal to try to raise thousands of pounds to take Natalie to the Hoxey Clinic in Mexico City for specialist herbal treatment .
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