Example sentences of "[adv] told [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was basically told that there was nothing they could do about it , and that if I wanted a harmoniser that worked I would have to buy a separate rack unit . |
| 2 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 3 | One is constantly told that the difficulty is finding young people to join the voluntary ranks . |
| 4 | At th , a lot of people are just told that it 's so dirty , which is is n't and I |
| 5 | Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question . |
| 6 | At the same time Wilson was bluntly told that the United States would not make good any losses that the British economy might suffer . |
| 7 | Those who persevere are nearly always told that the teacher has denied their claims . |
| 8 | He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought . |
| 9 | As children grow older they are usually told that it is ‘ babyish ’ to cry . |
| 10 | One is usually told that it will also knit double-knit . |
| 11 | I was once told that Philip Henry Thomas , while preparing himself for the Civil Service examination , had followed his period as a pupil-teacher with a post connected with the railways which were expanding rapidly in industrial South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 12 | No doubt I shall be briskly told that there is nothing new about that — and , of course , there is not . |
| 13 | On the other hand we are not positively told that he was insane , and so we must also consider the unlikely hypothesis that the mistake was merely an act of folly . |
| 14 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 15 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 16 | The court was also told that a sale of Paramount was expected to be completed in the next fortnight for £1.5million . |
| 17 | The Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe ( Prosafe ) was also told that another 14 million are seriously injured as the first steps towards an Interpol-style consumer European protection agency were made yesterday . |
| 18 | And we are also told that there could be a case where the peasantry had no such effect . |
| 19 | We were also told that the fire was started in June , and was not expected to be extinguished until the start of the rains , normally in October . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom parliamentary trade and industry select committee was also told that several ministries and senior members of the government had known about the manufacture of propellant for the Iraqi " super-gun " by a British-owned company at least six months earlier than they had admitted . |
| 21 | The conference was also told that delegates from Turkmenistan had been prevented by the authorities from leaving that country . |
| 22 | We are also told that the lopsided mouth |
| 23 | She was also told that some of the creatures and vegetation on the planet were not real , but the product of a Nicaean corporation . |
| 24 | I 'm also told that we 'll have no problems with the phone calls this week . |
| 25 | He was also told that 11,090 containers with low-level radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea , and that at least five barges holding large quantities of nuclear waste are floating or have sunk off the island of Novaya Zemlya ( a former Soviet nuclear testing site ) . |
| 26 | The court was also told that Gwynedd Social Services department left the boy with the family , despite his allegations of mistreatment . |
| 27 | The court was also told that Gwynedd Social Services department left the boy with the family , despite his allegations of mistreatment . |
| 28 | We are also told that the new Teesdale and Teesside Park developments are in Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 29 | He was also told that Connolly was believed to be a member of the Provisional IRA . |
| 30 | She 's also told that it 's Grace Poole that slept by the Rochester 's bed . |