Example sentences of "be told [adv] that " in BNC.
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1 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
2 | And while Monika has been told unofficially that she is no longer welcome as a teacher of religious studies at St Thomas More School , Bedford , Father O' Neill continues to enjoy the protection of the church as a practising priest . |
3 | ‘ He has been told simply that I object to marriage with Artai , ’ she said . |
4 | I 'm afraid we ca n't help you at the moment — we 've been told simply that Mr. Andrew is away from the office . |
5 | But , since she had no wish to have a discussion with him about it when for all she knew he could have telephoned her hotel yesterday or the day before and been told simply that she was n't available , she chose to assume that he did not know . |
6 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
7 | They shop for relief from physician to physician , their self-esteem diminishes , and.their anxieties increase when they are told repeatedly that their symptoms are ‘ only due to nerves ’ . |
8 | We are told continually that the Labour party is united on this issue . |
9 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
10 | SERBIA will be told tomorrow that it faces total isolation unless it halts the killing in Yugoslavia . |
11 | The and their self-opinionated Premier , Jacques Delores , must be told clearly that we stand for co-operation of Western style democracy , not the old Eastern block style of all encompassing socialist state with the dead hand of Brussels directing policies , as Moscow did with the U S S R. Freedom of the independent nation and people must confer . |
12 | The borough planning committee will be told today that the applicants have not completed proposals to improve the access from the A548 . |
13 | The Borough planning committee will be told today that the applicants have not completed proposals to improve the access to the Abbey from the main coast road , the A548 . |
14 | It was that the Shah should be told formally that it was no longer appropriate for him to come to the USA . |
15 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
16 | Employees at the Dupont nylon fibres factory in Brockworth , Gloucester were told today that a quarter of the workforce … 250 out of a total of 990 , are to lose their jobs . |
17 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
18 | Political correspondents were told initially that the Prime Minister believed his activities to be ‘ unorthodox but in order ’ . |
19 | Union leaders were told recently that the Essex plant , which currently produces the Sierra and the Fiesta , was experiencing more stoppages than any of the company 's plants in Europe and that quality levels were also the worst . |
20 | We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s . |
21 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
22 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
23 | We were told yesterday that ‘ No comment ’ means ‘ Guilty as hell ’ , but I mean you were suggesting |
24 | She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she was n't . |
25 | For forty five years , we 're being told continually that it is the envy of the world . |
26 | Unlike England , where one is told simply that the case will be heard sometime in the weeks following the notified date , the case in Scotland will actually proceed on the date notified . |
27 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
28 | I was told later that many North Eastern residents were disturbed by her noise . |
29 | The minister was told plainly that ‘ the election of a member of parliament , and other publick services , has drawn me into a great deall of expence , and no small trouble … ’ |
30 | Last night TODAY was told unofficially that several European magazines had been approached with the material . |