Example sentences of "be [adv] informed that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Navy blue high-heeled shoes and earrings completed the ensemble and I am reliably informed that the skirt was the ‘ new length ’ , i.e. above the knee .
2 There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it .
3 She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break .
4 He found the wording offensive enough , but when he was later informed that the composition was that of a witch his anger boiled over .
5 In early June , the RCM was summarily informed that the Duchess of York with 200 passengers , including a handful of teenagers from Huyton , was on its way to Canada .
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