Example sentences of "have [been] receiving [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 2 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 3 | The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury , especially to children , has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently . |
| 4 | At long last , Antoni Tàpies , the important Catalan master , has been receiving proper attention in the international markets . |
| 5 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 6 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 7 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 8 | Batty has been receiving electric shock treatment in a bid to cure the ankle ligament damage he sustained against Coventry on October 31 . |
| 9 | In many cases the acquitted defendant will have been receiving legal aid . |
| 10 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 11 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 12 | Levy had been receiving medical treatment for depression stemming from his domestic and business difficulties . |
| 13 | The Honduran newspaper , La Tribuna , reported that people opposed to the project had been receiving threatening phone calls . |
| 14 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 15 | A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s . |
| 16 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 17 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 18 | Figures presented in the conference report show that some states have been receiving more than their fair share of government resources for health care taking into account population . |
| 19 | A Bosnian evacuee who 's been receiving medical treatment in this country claims there are more deserving casualties still suffering in the war zone . |