Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 2 | For example , is it not true that the Roosecote project has received a substantial amount of capital from NORWEB but that the deal has been kept secret ? |
| 3 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
| 4 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
| 5 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 6 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 7 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 8 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 9 | Some critics have labelled such shows a huge con but , according to Arts Centre spokeswoman Alison Lister , the display has received a warm welcome in Darlington . |
| 10 | Public access to an environmentally attractive waterfront has received a favourable response in the city and has undoubtedly muted political debate . |
| 11 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
| 12 | Neil Kinnock has received a rousing reception to his keynote speech to delegates at Blackpool . |
| 13 | The October bank holiday proposal has received a muted response from Employment Minister Michael Howard , who said he was open to persuasion but had no plans to make changes . |
| 14 | US West Inc 's plans to get into the fun-and-games end of the telecommunications business with Time Warner Inc has received a mixed review from the junior among the credit rating agencies , Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co of Chicago , which placed the securities of US West Inc , US West Capital Funding and US West Financial Services on rating watch . |
| 15 | Car-sharing has received a recent boost since the petrol price increases ; owners are able to share petrol costs without endangering their insurance policies as long as sharing is on a non-profit basis . |
| 16 | Once a water has received a regular supply of HNV baits , and the carp have been hooked on special rigs , they are rarely caught on any other bait or method . |
| 17 | The agreement has received a cautious welcome from environmentalists , some of whom , however , are sceptical as to whether a purely voluntary approach can be effective . |
| 18 | But the film has received a cool reception at city hall where calls to licence empty council properties out to squatters are denounced as way off beam . |
| 19 | At least one exceedingly wet Old Etonian baronet ( oh , all right then : Sir George Young ) has received a rude note from another even wetter Old Etonian baronet ( yes , you 're right : Sir Ian Gilmour ) deploring his decision to vote for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | M Rocard 's ‘ big bang ’ proposal has received a positive response from most socialist leaders , left-wing voters ( 73 per cent approved of the idea ) , and ecologist supporters ( 62 per cent approved ) , while several leading communist dissidents have expressed a cautious interest . |
| 21 | Mr Rocard 's ‘ big bang ’ proposal has received a positive response from most socialist leaders , left-wing voters ( 73 per cent approved of the idea ) , and ecologist supporters ( 62 per cent approved ) , while several leading communist dissidents have expressed a cautious interest . |
| 22 | The South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants ' diamond jubilee appeal has received a welcome boost from Olympic gold medal winner Sally Gunnell . |
| 23 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 24 | Now the family has received a formal letter of condolences from the Brazilian ambassador in London , his Excellency Paulo-Tarso Flecha de Lima . |
| 25 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 26 | Northumbria has received a generous increase in standard spending assessment of 17.3 per cent . |
| 27 | You might suppose that a bad smell would not deter a really hungry hunter , but anyone who has received a full squirt from a skunk knows very well that it is almost unendurable . |
| 28 | A ONE line appeal for Government help to collect the poll tax in Darlington has received a curt response from the town 's MP . |
| 29 | Throughout the period of its existence the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory , like the Physical Chemistry Laboratory , has received a constant stream of distinguished foreign scientists on sabbatical leave . |
| 30 | The subject of English stress has received a large amount of attention , and the references given here are only a small selection from an enormous number . |