Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] receive [det] " in BNC.

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1 Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained .
2 Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these .
3 If the decision was only as to the construction of a statutory provision that would explain why the case has received little attention in later cases …
4 ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’
5 ‘ The chairman has received many letters , as have I , from MPs and people in the local community who see this as the first need for the force . ’
6 During 1990 , 450 guests benefited from convalescence at the Home , and the Association has received many letters of appreciation of the good food , the good company and the kind care of the staff .
7 Yet ironically , Kahn has received little recognition outside narrow architectural circles while many of his pupils have had considerable popular success .
8 Although the scrutiny programme has received most publicity , Rayner also emphasized the need for ‘ lasting reforms ’ which would help remove the underlying causes of Whitehall inefficiency .
9 Gossip has received some attention in anthropology .
10 A source close to the pin-up star at No 19 with Humpin' Around , says : ‘ Bobby has received several written and verbal threats .
11 Our sales force has received some excellent sales training input this , and next year we are adding three more to the numbers .
12 When the proposed research has received some external funding however administrative fees are imposed .
13 In comparison to speech , automatic handwriting recognition has received little attention .
14 Communication is a two-edged weapon , however , and Lancer Force began to receive some ill-conceived directions for section attacks and platoon operations that were dreamt up by mainland staff with no comprehension that a force without artillery , and facing an enemy superiority of ten-to-one , is likely to be obliterated in conventional infantry attacks .
15 Moreover , GCE had received many reviews , which detailed both its strengths and its weaknesses .
16 One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race .
17 Lancaster 's opposition had received little determined support , and Rent 's conspiracy , if conspiracy it really was , had come to nothing .
18 As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year .
19 Most clergy have received some instruction in voice production and singing during their theological training .
20 In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s .
21 It is not surprising , then , that this particular set of objections to the implementation of the Delors Plan has received little attention even in the countries likely to be most affected .
22 He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others .
23 These viruses have received most attention because their high pathogenicity , narrow host range , and complete safety to vertebrates and plants , make them ideal candidates for biological pest control agents .
24 Science and technology institutes tended to receive more investment than the liberal arts colleges .
25 Such calculations are difficult , due to difficulties in obtaining data on income or wealth distribution among age groups , and this aspect of distribution has received little study .
26 So far , no artist from that period has received this kind of attention from a major museum .
27 The perceptual side of the Umwelt has received less attention than the motor aspect , the study of animal perception ( as opposed to sensory physiology or discriminative behaviour ) having been inhabited by the explicitly anti-mentalistic bias of behaviourism .
28 AMNESTY has received many letters concerning the Vatican 's position on the death penalty .
29 Some of the patients assigned to prednisolone did receive this drug for more than four weeks .
30 The all-talking , all-colour films continued to receive more praise than perhaps could have been expected .
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