Example sentences of "had received [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A source within the fraud squad confirmed that it had received helpful information from Mr Hann at an early stage . |
| 3 | I was wondering , would you know if any other subscriber to the hunt had received similar hate mail ? |
| 4 | The colonel said that he had received extraordinary instructions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Yet within a month it had received additional funding and increased sessions and would be able to meet demands previously unattainable . |
| 11 | The invasion had received final approval from the " Big Three " ( Churchill , Roosevelt , and Stalin ) in their meeting at Teheran in December 1943 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The then current ratepayers had received substantial bequests from the ratepayers of 50 and 100 years previous . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was still no news of Waite , but I read that Archbishop Runcie 's offer to help Iran locate four of its diplomats still missing in Beirut had received official welcome . |
| 18 | Substantial numbers of Tatars returned to live in their traditional homelands and , following a referendum in which the idea had received overwhelming support , a Crimean autonomous republic was finally restored by a vote of the Ukrainian parliament in February 1991 . |
| 19 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 21 | He subsequently claimed that the Soviet Union had received great support during these meetings for its readiness to take part ‘ in multilateral talks among all states which use the waters of the Indian Ocean with a view to formulating guarantees of the safety of maritime lines of communication , including the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz , as well as guarantees of the littoral states ’ sovereignty over their natural resources ’ . |
| 22 | Tesco , on the other hand , had received good service from UK-based Merton and had used them again and again . |
| 23 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 24 | Amaranth had received good advice from Charles Harvey about the interviews . |
| 25 | For a time the correspondence was brief and businesslike , but it became more expansive after the book had received good reviews : there were thanks for entertainment , and enquiries about reprinting dates . |
| 26 | During August 1983 the Independent Commission Against Corruption ( ‘ I.C.A.C. ’ ) received information that Mr. Stuart Leslie Turner , an officer of Barclays ( Asia ) Ltd. , had received illegal advantages from two companies , one of which was a Carrian company . |
| 27 | ( The 1990 law — see pp. 37684-85 — and a July 1988 law both allowed for amnesties for politicians who had received illegal campaign funds hitherto , although not for those making such contributions . ) |
| 28 | The headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) was searched by court officials and police on Nov. 19 ; papers were taken away on the orders of a judge investigating allegations that the PSOE had received illegal funds . |
| 29 | Elliott 's school , together with one or two other notable exceptions , continued to teach by the combined system but , after 1880 , the bulk of British schools and teachers adopted the oral method in accordance with the resolutions of the Milan Conference , which had received worldwide publicity . |
| 30 | Human rights abuses in Iraq had received worldwide attention , but grave violations in countries such as Chad , China , Colombia , Mali , Myanma , Syria and Turkey were accorded little publicity . |