Example sentences of "obtained [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time the information is obtained splits into different patterns depending on the type of information being sought . |
| 2 | It was held that a jury could find that they had obtained money by deception , and not in return for chopping down the trees . |
| 3 | He has since been engaged in teaching at Cambridge , and has obtained experience in W.E.A. lecturing there . |
| 4 | We were fortunate to have obtained funding for the project from the Gatsby Trust and from Guy 's Hospital Special Trustees . |
| 5 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 6 | The UK Tech Team has obtained permission to import hand-painted Persian-style tiles in a design that dates back over 2,000 years . |
| 7 | To attract international investment , the Cook Islands have recently obtained permission from the Hong Kong stock exchange to allow offshore companies incorporated there to be listed on the exchange in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | He was hard pressed during the epidemic , and had obtained permission for the acting medical officer of health for the Borough to man a relief vaccination station at the Town Hall . |
| 9 | By 1915 , 74 local authorities had obtained permission for 105 schemes . |
| 10 | Having obtained permission to walk over the land , a group of people divide the area between them ( usually in the squares of a grid marked out in some way on the ground ) , and each person collects and records any finds in their particular area . |
| 11 | Bratby had obtained permission to paint in the roof area of the Victoria and Albert Museum and there Minton visited him for tutorials . |
| 12 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 13 | One of the most fabulously rich of the Shahs ministers , Hushand Ansary , has obtained permission to leave on the grounds that he had an urgent appointment with Henry Kissinger . |
| 14 | When Antiochus became king certain lawless Jews obtained permission to perform the rites of the heathen in Jerusalem : they forsook circumcision and built gymnasia . |
| 15 | A police inspector , Saul Clavería , had obtained permission to defend his honour after alleging that the editor of the daily newspaper La República , Federico Fassano , had accused him of involvement in the smuggling of contraband from Brazil . |
| 16 | In some cases , the BGS libraries had obtained copies of theses from the authors by purchase or gift , and no loan records were available for such copies . |
| 17 | These have been very well received by all who have obtained copies , tutors , examiners and students . |
| 18 | The Northern Echo has obtained copies of letters written by the Thornaby man , who is serving a life sentence for murder . |
| 19 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 20 | A control contract is subject to shareholder approval by a majority vote ( including any shares held by the dominant undertaking : but , in the case of a company whose shares are listed or publicly traded , the domestic regulatory authority may — as the Stock Exchange presently does — ban an interested shareholder from voting in this type of situation ) ; such a contract may therefore allow predators who have obtained board control of a company to make that company effectively subservient to an external body without the formalities of a takeover . |
| 21 | Let us suppose that the kth member of the population sequence is being considered for sample inclusion and that thus far in the sampling process , we have obtained n k of the n sample members that we require . |
| 22 | This in itself is unusual for East Berkshire where every conceivable back yard , nook and cranny has obtained building permission . |
| 23 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 24 | At the same time the Institute has obtained DOE funding for two research projects — one directed at reducing waste materials on building sites and improving recycling , and the other for the development and publication of a loose-leaf Environmental Site Handbook . |
| 25 | By 1830 the number of towns which had obtained Acts of Parliament to have their own Courts of Requests or Courts of Conscience , on the lines of those established in London in 1749 , had risen to fifty-four . |
| 26 | Obtained MBA at Liverpool University in 1993 and Certificate in Education [ London University ] in 1975 . |
| 27 | The difficulty of using this form of patronage whose scarcity could give offence to those who were unlucky is illustrated by the difficulties of the Duke of Montrose and his son , Lord George Graham , in 1739–40 , when Lord George , who hoped to combine a career as a naval officer with membership in the House of Commons , first obtained command of a ship , and was thus enabled to offer places in the line of command to the sons of freeholders in the area of Montrose influence in central Scotland . |
| 28 | Twenty-eight companies have already obtained shareholder approval to move their stock into Taurus , the new paperless share transfer and registration system , when it is phased in from mid-1993 . |
| 29 | We have also obtained TCR- β and TCR - mutant mice in a ( 129/OlaxC57BL/6 ) background and have found no effect of genetic background on thymocyte numbers and percentage of DP cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 30 | Fishing : Fish are abundant ; locally obtained fishing permit required . |