Example sentences of "[vb -s] receive [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 While a number of discussions of the roots of urban unrest in the United States have noted the salience of political marginality in determining participation in violent protests ( Skolnick , 1969 ; Fogelson , 1971 ; Edelman , 1971 ; Knopf , 1975 ) , this issue has received relatively little attention in Britain .
2 Establishing the conditions under which plural reference is possible or even preferred has received relatively little attention until recently .
3 Whilst much has been written about its open fields , the community at Laxton has received relatively little attention .
4 Another mechanism which has previously been considered important is the repression of emotional events ( Freud , 1915/1957 ) , although there is some support for such an effect in the long term studies of personal memories discussed later , repression as a mechanism has received relatively little attention in the recent literature in cognitive psychology .
5 Italy has received comparatively little attention , although many of its foremost artists also turned to book illustration at least once in their working lives .
6 Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities .
7 Selling as a topic has received very little academic study .
8 The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention .
9 The motor skills domain has received far less attention than the cognitive and affective , and objectives in this field are perhaps best devised from a study of the way skills are learned .
10 The idea of deterrence by denial , of making one 's own society hard to conquer , has a good historical record but has received far less attention .
11 There is another set of behaviours that has this characteristic and that has received far more attention .
12 The error message merely means the printer has received too much data and does n't want the computer to send any more across .
13 Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord .
14 The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts .
15 The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely .
16 The causes of economic and employment decline in the cities have been the subjects of the most extensive studies — no other area of urban research has received so much attention .
17 The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion .
18 It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention .
19 I believe , however , that the emphasis is justified because it has received so little systematic attention in the British literature .
20 Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it .
21 For the last two years , the city has received only half its average rainfall of four inches .
22 The Plan is only a proposal at this stage and the Regional Council wishes to receive as many views as possible before coming to a decision .
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