Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] be told that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where formerly she was told that ‘ the leading authorities of the day all agree … , now it is no more than suggested that ‘ many doctors feel … ’ . |
| 2 | the different parts of the lump and today he was told that the second biopsy was clear it 's not malignant |
| 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 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 5 | Time and again we are told that a kingdom was divided equally . |
| 6 | But now we are told that the Labour party plans to increase the local contribution to no less than 20 per cent . |
| 7 | But again I was told that he was away from the office , and a girl who said she was his secretary could give no clear indication of when he was expected back . |