Example sentences of "received its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drive for expansion received its greatest impetus from the support given to the movement by Lord Rothermere , who was persuaded by Mussolini to back Mosley . |
| 2 | It received its best expression in that story of the Mabinogion about " The Dream of Macsen Wledig " , the dream of the Emperor Maximus . |
| 3 | There was much pleasure that Roger Harper played throughout the series , and here his off-spin received its best reward with 6 for 57 . |
| 4 | The notion of bureaucracy as a neutral technical instrument with which industrialized nations must be administered received its clearest statement by Max Weber , the German political sociologist . |
| 5 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 6 | Is there any message of consolation that I can take to the very bruised people in Staffordshire , who watched with pride as the 3rd battalion received its new colours in September ? |
| 7 | As S. A. Pain put it , ‘ The idea caught on at once , the station was built , and received its famous name ’ . |
| 8 | Collaborated with Doris Lessing on The Making of the Representative for Planet * which received its European premiere at the English National Opera in 1988 . |
| 9 | The following day , Virgin received its first order for Music Box , from Nigeria . |
| 10 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 11 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 12 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 13 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 14 | Earlier , in May 1939 , No 602 ( City of Glasgow ) Squadron received its first spitfire , also becoming the first Auxiliary Unit in Britain to be equipped with the new 1000 H.P. 8-gun interceptors . |
| 15 | When the measure received its first reading in Strasbourg , MEPs secured a number of changes on , for instance , the definition of polymers , safety data sheets and compulsory use of child-proof containers for dangerous substances intended for domestic use . |
| 16 | It was launched with private sector backing , received its first government funding in April , and has already achieved results . |
| 17 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 18 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 19 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 20 | France , Japan , Canada , India , the USSR and Europe all have active remote sensing programmes , and US dominance of the commercial remote sensing market received its first challenge in 1986 with the launch of the French Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre ( SPOT-1 ) . |
| 21 | Mongolia received its first visit from a Japanese Prime Minister when Toshiki Kaifu arrived in Ulan Bator on Aug. 13 at the end of his visit to China . |
| 22 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 23 | After approval by the upper house the PKO bill was returned to the lower chamber where , on June 15 , it received its final endorsement . |
| 24 | A bill to privatise the agency received its second reading in the Commons yesterday . |
| 25 | PRIVATISATION of the Crown Suppliers will go ahead quickly once Parliament has passed the enabling bill which received its second reading yesterday , the Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , told the Commons yesterday . |
| 26 | A Bill before Parliament to unify public transport in London , received its second reading on 23 March , amid great opposition from the independent bus operators and the trade unions . |
| 27 | A Bill of Parliament received its second reading on 23 March 1930 , but by February 1932 , there had been a change in the government and Mr. Pybus , the new Minister of Transport , decided to drop the Bill . |
| 28 | The Evidence ( Procedure in other Jurisdictions ) Bill , which received its Second Reading on 24th January , and has now reached the Committee Stage , sets out a comprehensive code for the taking of evidence by courts in the United Kingdom on behalf of other courts . |
| 29 | He later opened his own small restaurant , Les Quat' Saisons , ( also in Oxford ) , which received its second Michelin star in 1982 . |
| 30 | CYCLING : The hybrid sport of mountain-bike racing , which was officially recognised only last year , received its biggest vote of confidence so far yesterday , when a new World Cup series with a £90,000 prize fund was announced in Brussels . |