Example sentences of "he [verb] received [noun] " in BNC.

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1 change the status of the problem report to ‘ ACCEPT ’ to indicate that he has received notification of the problem
2 An example of a document of title is a bill of lading ( i.e. the document given by a shipowner acknowledging that he has received goods which have been shipped ) .
3 It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will .
4 Mr Maxwell , in an affidavit of his own , confirms he has received payments from his mother but adds : ‘ I feel I have a moral obligation to repay as and when my resources permit . ’
5 And it is fanciful to suggest that an order on Mr. Tully to say whether he has received Abbey 's money and if so what has happened to that money could result in his ill-treatment or in a dubious confession .
6 It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary .
7 Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded .
8 He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people .
9 Is my hon. Friend aware that the Member representing Battersea has kept in regular touch with English Heritage , from which he has received confirmation that everything that needs to be done to protect that building has been done ?
10 Will the Minister confirm that he has received representations from Age Concern and others about the income of single pensioners being 60 per cent .
11 Indeed , the day before he had received Karl Rahner to thank him for his work for the Council .
12 He had received reports that army ambulances were being ‘ spruced up ’ at a Gloucestershire army depot .
13 Canon Reggie Twaddell of St Mark 's Parish Church said he had received letters of condemnation from as far away as Crete , Cork and Kilkenny after damage to the stained glass windows .
14 The Channel 7 man claimed he had received clearance from the German Wirtschaftspruferkammer allowing member firms to advertise their services outside Germany ( it is forbidden in Germany ) but that unfortunately he did not have a copy with him .
15 The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems .
16 Later it was suggested that he had received help from dissident Englishmen who preferred Border ruffians of like mind to their own unpopular Warden ; but nobody could deny the rescuer the sobriquet bestowed on him in the ballad — ‘ The Bold Buccleuch ’ .
17 It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis .
18 The statement follows a claim by Sinn Fein councillor Fra McCann who said he had received complaints about dealers selling ecstasy at the council-owned concert hall .
19 Speaking to the press , Jurkans defended his policy of maintaining good relations with Russia , for which he had received criticism during the debate on the vote of no confidence .
20 Kakuei Tanaka , a former Prime Minister ( in 1972-74 ) who had also been implicated in the Lockheed scandal of the mid-1970s , had already acknowledged that he had received money from the Sagawa group .
21 He had received word of the Iran scheme in a stream-of-consciousness memo from McFarlane , delivered to ‘ Secretary Shultz personally and to no other for him ’ , aboard his aircraft on July 13th , 1985 .
22 He had received support for his view on modernization when Lord Carrington , the former NATO Secretary-General , said on Nov. 20 , in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London , that he was unable to imagine any circumstances " in which NATO would deploy new nuclear weapons which would fall on East German soil " .
23 Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] .
24 At the outbreak of war , the casual wards had been closed by order of the Ministry of Health , and the master reported to the committee that on August 31st 1939 , he had received instructions from the medical officer of health to evacuate , 116 patients and children to other institutions within the county to accommodate the patients evacuated from London hospitals .
25 But on spying Mitchell 's cherubic features , the proprietor refused to serve him saying he had received instructions by ‘ phone not to .
26 He had received loperamide and ciprofloxacin without benefit .
27 The Newcastle boss also revealed why he sold goal machine Mick Quinn to Coventry for a cut-price £250,000 and that he had received mail questioning his decision to sell .
28 Last year the American author Seymour Hersh , who in a book accused Daily Mirror journalists of acting as Israeli spies , admitted he had received information from Flynn .
29 He said he had received information from another member of staff that Miss Dixon had left a message on a telephone answering machine about an ‘ untidy kitchen ’ at the nursing home .
30 They also stated that he had received funds from North Korea .
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