Example sentences of "have [been] tell that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers .
3 Now Mr Brownbill , whose plight was taken up by the Echo 's Champ , Bill Jackson , has been told that work will start within the next few days at his South Liverpool home .
4 Now Mr Brownbill , whose plight was taken up by the Echo 's Champ , Bill Jackson , has been told that work will start within the next few days at his South Liverpool home .
5 Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves .
6 He 'd been told that often enough in the old days .
7 Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it .
8 The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s .
9 I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications .
10 Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories .
11 ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says .
12 Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts .
13 so if she had been told that
14 Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there .
15 I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist .
16 I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly .
17 No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds .
18 We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now .
19 I 've been told that on Tuesday .
20 Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty .
21 No , I have been told that
22 The long list have been told that erm , erm , notices were being made at and I think that 's right , is n't it ?
23 Thamesdown Borough Councillors have been told that expenditure to tackle the problem of subsidence is virtually inescapable .
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