Example sentences of "[be] told that [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 2 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 3 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 4 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 5 | I was told that what I did in my bedroom was a private matter . |