Example sentences of "[vb past] receive [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Princess of Wales 's favourite touring ballet company , The London City Ballet of which she is patron , is to close in July claiming it failed to receive promised Arts Council grants . |
| 2 | Sheila Mann , consultant in psychiatry of old age at Homerton Hospital , warned of clients falling between two stools as they failed to receive adequate nursing or social care . |
| 3 | However , in a number of subject areas , SCOTVEC expected to receive similar proposals from large numbers of colleges throughout the country . |
| 4 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 5 | Every respondent expected to receive psychological benefits related to : |
| 6 | The only reason he 'd changed his mind was because he 'd received advance notification that there would be a choice morsel on offer that day — a boy named Garimel . |
| 7 | The Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo , rebel movement , set up by Rhodesian intelligence in the 1970s , latterly backed by South Africa , and believed to receive military training and supplies in Kenya ; Alfonso Dhlakama , l . ) . |
| 8 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 9 | When the Saudis insisted that Aramco impose tight control over the destination of its oil , the company got tanker captains to sign affidavits as to their destination and arranged to receive cabled acknowledgements of each ship 's eventual arrival at the approved port or terminal . |
| 10 | About two weeks later , while still at Biot , Mrs Rose began receiving strange messages by telephone purporting to come from Crabb which were according to Mrs Rose supposed to have contained personal phrases and nicknames which only the two of them knew . |
| 11 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 12 | Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south , although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the company 's financial controller said that , if one looked at the methods used by the cost accountant at the pre-investment ( i.e. product-design ) stage , it was clear that the notions of activity-based costing did receive careful consideration , before approval of the product design and projected product prices used in the investment appraisal . |
| 14 | He admitted receiving stolen property and breach of a conditional discharge . |
| 15 | Mr Nigel Rudd , chairman of Williams , said the company had received categorical assurances from the Barclay brothers that they had no intention of making an offer . |
| 16 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 17 | I was wondering , would you know if any other subscriber to the hunt had received similar hate mail ? |
| 18 | The colonel said that he had received extraordinary instructions . |
| 19 | At Daimler 's annual meeting on May 26th , Deutsche Bank said he had received confidential information about Daimler 's accounts before he speculated in related shares . |
| 20 | Even after they had received total protection status , beluga numbers in the St Lawrence continued to decline , and autopsies of dead whales during the 1980s revealed astonishing levels of toxic chemicals — in particular organochlorines such as PCBs , the insecticides DDT and mirex , and dioxin . |
| 21 | For example , in 1992 it was discovered that around 1,000 patients at a North Staffordshire hospital had received incorrect dosages of radiation therapy because of an alleged fault in a computer program . |
| 22 | Patients with a long duration of Crohn 's disease and who had received specific treatment ( steroids or surgery ) in the past , showed a similar significant ( p<0.05 ) response to elemental diet , DAI decreasing from 6.3 ( 1.4 ) to 2.2 ( 0.8 ) , as newly diagnosed patients , 3.0 ( 0.6 ) to 1.2 ( 0.7 ) . |
| 23 | Sixty eight ( 38% ) had not had contact with social or voluntary services in the previous three years ; 51 ( 28% ) had been advised to contact social services ‘ if the need arose ’ ; and only 62 ( 34% ) people had received regular visits from social services personnel ( social workers , occupational therapists , etc ) . |
| 24 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 25 | The invasion had received final approval from the " Big Three " ( Churchill , Roosevelt , and Stalin ) in their meeting at Teheran in December 1943 . |
| 26 | In its last meeting , however , the UKCC considered its analysis of responses in a private session , announcing afterwards that the proposals had been adopted as council policy , and that the consultation had received complete support from the profession . |
| 27 | Albert Fall arranged for their transfer to the Department of the Interior , and then leased them in secret to two private oil magnates from whom , it was later revealed , he had received substantial bribes — some $300 000 and a herd of pedigree cattle . |
| 28 | The then current ratepayers had received substantial bequests from the ratepayers of 50 and 100 years previous . |
| 29 | Preparations for unification of the two Yemens , which had received major impetus from the summit meeting in December 1989 following publication of a draft joint constitution [ see p. 37138 ] , moved forward with the opening of the border ( announced on Jan. 22 following a three-day meeting at Prime Ministerial level ) and a visit to Aden , capital of South Yemen ( the People 's Democratic Republic ) , by the President of North Yemen ( the Yemen Arab Republic ) , Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh , on Feb. 18 . |
| 30 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |