Example sentences of "is told that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if a man who has had an adolescent incestuous relationship with his mother now feels guilty about having close relationships with women , he is told that there is nothing wrong in loving women . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the public is told that ail similarities to dolphins are purely coincidental . |
| 3 | The story is told that a certain academic was recruited as an expert ( supposedly ) on cryptograms , when in actuality he was an authority on crypto gams . |
| 4 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 5 | He is told that it is a ceremony connected with Sidi Bou Ali , a long dead Sufi mystic whose precepts many Neftis follow . |
| 6 | Any employee who is told that he must lose his job through no fault of his own is likely to ask , ‘ Why me ? ’ |
| 7 | In the story of Aladdin , his beloved is told that the wonderful palace he has got the genie of the lamp to build for her will only be complete if a roc 's egg is suspended from the dome , DC 3 . |
| 8 | Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will . |
| 9 | The museum visitor who is told that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height simply has no idea where to go from that point onwards . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 11 | Alice is told that the reason it is grinning is because it is a Cheshire Cat . |
| 12 | A true story is told that the steeple of Hull 's Holy Trinity church , is on a level with the road in Church Street , Sutton . |
| 13 | Here is an example spoken by David when he is told that his son has been killed : |
| 14 | If a child is told that a particular outing is to take place tomorrow , this becomes a certain fact in his or her mind . |
| 15 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 16 | The child is told that every time it completes a specified desirable behaviour it will earn a ‘ token ’ . |
| 17 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 18 | In Sard Harker there is a complete change of tempo when Sard , finally reaching Santa Barbara , is told that Miss Kingsborough has already been found . |
| 19 | These experiments generally show that there is discrimination against black people in the sense that the black actor is not given the job , or is told that it is filled , while the similarly qualified white actor is given the job . |
| 20 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 21 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 22 | Moreover , he is told that the date of the first review is related to the length of time the Secretary of State decides he must serve for retribution and deterrence , and that the judicial view as to this period is a factor taken into account in making the decision . |
| 23 | As an example of one technique , assume that a project leader is told that his current project , if successful , will earn the company £1000 profit , if a failure , nothing . |
| 24 | As an example of one technique , assume that a project leader is told that his current project , if successful , will earn the company £1000 profit , if a failure , nothing . |
| 25 | A peasant who is especially devoted to St Martin meets the saint one day and is told that his devotion is rewarded by four wishes . |
| 26 | The public will not be outraged if it is told that precedents will be confined to their facts . |
| 27 | Preston Crown Court is told that the two boys accused of murdering the Merseyside toddler James Bulger each blamed the other for attacking the child . |
| 28 | Anaeas is in love with Dido but is told that he must leave in order to save trial . |