Example sentences of "[adv] obtained [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Liz , Alix and Esther all obtained places at the college of their choice , in Cambridge , and there were reunited , to gossip there and elsewhere over subsequent decades of their fortuitous friendship .
2 The company had already obtained agreement from most of its creditors to forgive around half its DM2.7 billion debt .
3 In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year .
4 The purchaser would still expect , rightly , to be able to obtain a remedy from the seller under the Sale of Goods Act even though he has not obtained ownership of the copyright subsisting in the computer program .
5 ( h ) Leaving aside the Court of Appeal decision in Lawrence , the overlap occurs where the accused obtains the property by deception but has not obtained ownership at the moment of the appropriation .
6 It had not obtained assessments for schemes when it should have .
7 The Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing ( SACIM ) , set up by the four countries , plans a range of measures to exclude poached ivory from the trade , including marking legally obtained ivory with a hologram , bar code and serial number .
8 Leaseholders long since obtained remedies for the specific recovery of their land : and those remedies were in fact far superior to the old real actions .
9 Comparison of plasminogen activator content between colon carcinoma resection tissue and endoscopically obtained biopsies of the same patients showed good agreement .
10 Activity and antigen levels of both activators were determined in homogenates of endoscopically obtained biopsies from normal and carcinomatous tissues .
11 B fraudulently obtained possession of cotton from Fowler .
12 ( 2 ) On any hypothesis , unless the statement in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is right , there was no theft , because the property passed with the fraudulently obtained consent of the owner and the buyer was guilty of obtaining by deception in the false pretences sense .
13 Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate .
14 To attract international investment , the Cook Islands have recently obtained permission from the Hong Kong stock exchange to allow offshore companies incorporated there to be listed on the exchange in Hong Kong .
15 Another creditor of the shareholder subsequently obtained judgment against him and a charging order on the shares by way of equitable execution .
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