Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is putting his faith in an appeal to create an endowment fund , and recently he has received a grant from the new libraries programme of the EC , to exchange and coordinate information between the Witt , the Rijksbureau in The Hague , and Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 2 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 3 | The movement to elevate the professional status of nurses has received a boost from the new federal Minister for Health , Senator Graham Richardson . |
| 4 | The former Royal maid accused of stealing letters from Princess Anne has received an apology from the national newspaper which called her a thief . |
| 5 | A MAN who claims his mail has not been delivered for over two years has received an apology from the Post Office after the discovery of over 400 letters at the home of a former postman . |
| 6 | Just a wellie-chuck from the Welsh border , the town has earned a living from the land for centuries . |
| 7 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |
| 8 | Compiler house Lucid Inc , Menlo Park , California , has won a contract from the US defence agency , DARPA , to integrate Lisp , C and C++ environments for various image-understanding projects currently underway . |
| 9 | Valley Bridge firm 's award WARDS of Sherburn , near Scarborough , the company which stepped in to finance and build the £130,000 barriers on the resort 's notorious Valley Bridge , has won an accolade from the Civic Society . |
| 10 | An oil pumping station near Brecon has won an award from the local branch of the Campaign for Rural Wales for good environmental practice . |
| 11 | One of Scotland 's most promising young Nordic skiers has won an award from the Highlands and Islands Development Board to help her pursue her career . |
| 12 | A young mime group has won an award from the Prince 's Trust to take their show on the road . |
| 13 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has won an order from the Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp for a digital Groupe Speciale Mobile system to serve the burgeoning Pearl River Delta region in south China ; the value of the order was not given . |
| 14 | LENNOX LEWIS , the WBC heavyweight champion , has accepted an invitation from the St Andrew 's Sporting Club to be special guest of honour at their monthly boxing promotion on Monday which features the Scottish lightweight title-holder , Kris McAdam , against Wayne Windle , of England . |
| 15 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |
| 16 | The UK 's Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ) has upheld a complaint from the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) about advertising claims made by NHG Timber . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , former Australian star Simon Poidevin has answered an SOS from the injury-plagued tourists . |
| 18 | ‘ The Prefect has had a call from the Minister . |
| 19 | Toc H has invited a representative from the police vice squad and a local health worker involved with AIDS awareness to the seminar . |
| 20 | There will be a celebratory weekend in June and has invited a group from the NDT to take part . |
| 21 | Harari says that ACtec has hired a team from the Israeli army to work on spread-spectrum technology and ‘ they know what they are doing ’ . |
| 22 | His leader , John Smith , has announced a conversion from the traditional Labour policy towards state control of industry to one in which the question of ownership is ‘ largely irrelevant . ’ |
| 23 | SynOptics Communications Inc has announced an order from the Unipart Group of Companies for its System 3000 intelligent hubs , which will be used to spearhead the latter 's migration from IBM Corp mainframe systems to personal computer local networks : the order comes via network integrator Harris Adacom , and comprises seven System 3000 hubs which will be used to run Token Ring and Ethernet ; the total contract is worth £250,000 , and SynOptics says it won the order ahead of competition from Cabletron and IBM . |
| 24 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 25 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 26 | Lack of money and bureaucratic confusion has left a legacy from the Victorian era with the state looking backwards , remodelling ancient buildings and patching up a system of care which is fragmentary , pitifully inadequate and increasingly inadequate to the elderly age group . ’ |
| 27 | In the first case the creditor has obtained a grant from the praetor entitling him to take possession of certain property of the debtor in order to secure his loan . |
| 28 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 29 | Since leaving Bristol Paul has obtained an MMus from the Royal College of Music and is now Principal Trumpet with English National Opera . |
| 30 | This is emphasized by Coleman ( 1969 ) , who has advocated a departure from the traditional classifications of agricultural land , forestry and so on , and instead produced a concentric ring model radiating out from townscape to urban fringe , to farmscape , to marginal fringe , and finally to wildscape . |