Example sentences of "[noun pl] obtained [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1750s , orangs from Sumatra reached Holland , but it was not until the 1850s that the English scientist Alfred Wallace ( see page 164 ) actually saw orangs in the wild and inevitably collected specimens by shooting them , the way that even the best naturalists obtained animals for study in those days . |
| 2 | That the bulk of the first new wave of Wirral 's heroin users obtained heroin from a single source might seem startling . |
| 3 | The results obtained fall into two categories , depending on the potassium precoverage . |
| 4 | The plaintiffs obtained judgment for £50m. against Company A but recovered only £6.7m. since A was insolvent . |
| 5 | In his first Annual Report seven years earlier , he had mentioned that 16 boys had gained Higher School Certificates ; this year the number was 41 ; and the following year no fewer than 18 Old Stopfordians obtained degrees at Cambridge alone . |
| 6 | Other surgeons and radiotherapists obtained benefit for some patients when they were sterilized by irradiation . |