Example sentences of "have been told [det] " 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 | John Jones has been told more money will be available from the first of April and he can expect his knee operation in the next year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been told that often enough in the old days . |
| 8 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would have liked to have been told less … abruptly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | so if she had been told that |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 18 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 19 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 20 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 21 | Bernard had been told this was a confusing mixture reminiscent of the old drapers ' shops — and would never work as the products would attract different customers . |
| 22 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 24 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 25 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |
| 26 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've been told that on Tuesday . |
| 30 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |