Example sentences of "be told the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 2 | After his last visit , he had gone to her and begged to be told the truth . |
| 3 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 4 | Irate customers who bother to complain to their local water executives will be told the rises are no higher than were forecast . |
| 5 | The señora now arrives to be told the story . |
| 6 | ‘ Aye , we must be told the news . |
| 7 | you should be told the details of the complaint against you ; |
| 8 | Try , if you are a farmer in a Third World town , to buy a stamp to send an order for urgent spare parts : you may be told the post office has run out of stamps . |
| 9 | There can be no secret about them , for British Telecom says in its instructions , ‘ The customer may be told the hourly charge rate ’ , though whether he will be told if he does not ask is another matter . |
| 10 | Trainer 's wife , best friend — either way , she had to be told the truth . |
| 11 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 12 | ‘ It does not necessarily mean that people should not be told the truth in school about what happens in reality . ’ |
| 13 | They are like patients , who , suspecting that something is seriously wrong , steadfastly refuse to see a doctor in the hope that their troubles will clear up without the need to be told the truth about themselves or undergo painful treatment . |
| 14 | Grandparents Billy , 80 , and 72-year-old Irene were called away from her bedside in the psychiatric unit at Liverpool 's Broad Green Hospital to be told the news which could signal the end of Rachel 's £5,000-a-day career . |
| 15 | Mr Sweeney said it was decided by a vote that he should be told the meeting wanted him to reconsider his decision . |
| 16 | Around 1,400 civilian workers at the training station for naval recruits will be told the news at 3.30pm , and a statement is expected in the Commons shortly after . |
| 17 | The Moslems expect to be told the same any time . |
| 18 | The ‘ Princess ’ then asked to be told the names of the three expectant mothers . |
| 19 | Hari decided that her mother must be told the truth , as she had pointed out , there was nothing wrong with her mind . |
| 20 | With some research topics , such as asking people to say what criminal offences they have committed , the only chance of getting any truthful answers would be with a guarantee that the answers would be confidential ( no one else would be told the answers given by a particular individual ) , and the best way of ensuring this is to allow respondents not to give their names ( anonymity ) . |
| 21 | However , now councillors are being urged to give tenants permission to keep pets on a permanent basis , without having to apply annually.The matter will be discussed by the council 's housing services sub-committee on Tuesday.The meeting will be told the council 's pets policy had not run into any difficulties over the past two years . |
| 22 | He handed the plastic bag to the white-coated technician and asked to be told the moment the fingerprints were identified . |
| 23 | Most people want to be told the truth , and to be given a clear lead towards the action needed for recovery . ’ |
| 24 | In the morning be told the others they were not to disturb her . |
| 25 | Section 28(4) now says that the person must be told the reason for the arrest even if the facts are obvious . |
| 26 | It is presidential policy that , wherever practicable , claimants should be told the outcome of their appeals on the day , but in all cases the claimant and adjudication officer must be sent a written record of the decision which includes a note of the evidence and submissions of the parties , a statement of the tribunals findings of fact and of the reasons for the decision . |
| 27 | The second truism is one I shall need to answer the question : why should we want to be told the truth ? |
| 28 | And that — a learnable correlation — is also the main thing we need in order to be told the truth . |
| 29 | If a prisoner is to be told the judicial view of his tariff , is the Secretary of State obliged to give reasons for departing from it if he does ? |
| 30 | It is convenient to consider the third and fourth issues together : has the prisoner the right to make representations before the Secretary of State sets the date for the first review , and has he a right to be told the judicial view of his tariff ? |