Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Joyce has received official thanks from the company Security Express , as well as a top commendation from Saint John ambulance . |
| 2 | If a friend or colleague whose opinions you respect tells you that he or she has received beneficial treatment from a particular hypnotherapist , perhaps that is the one for you to consult . |
| 3 | The boat has received regular visits from its lawyer owner , as well as from other collectors of the cars who have called at the yard over the years . |
| 4 | Olive has received 450 letters from the killer . |
| 5 | The Law Society has received many examples from practitioners across the country , of the detrimental impact of the eligibility changes on individual clients since the 12th April . |
| 6 | The earlier notion that the lower continental crust is largely basaltic in composition has received little support from more recent studies . |
| 7 | Some forty environmental organizations are taking part in the Ecological Bricks project , which has received financial assistance from the European Community ( EC ) and also from the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 8 | The publication has received financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture but is still in need of funding to ensure its survival . |
| 9 | This organ has received much attention from surgeons , who are confronted with the problems which arise when the prostate enlarges late in life and obstructs the urinary channel which passes through it . |
| 10 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 11 | US Secretary of State James Baker announces that the US has received formal request from deposed Kuwaiti government to enforce UN sanctions under the self-defence article ( Article 51 ) of the UN Charter . |
| 12 | It has received formal approval from the Justice Ministry , which ruled that the Party 's programme is acceptable under the recently-approved Law on Political parties . |
| 13 | The use which has received this appellation from Jespersen ( 1940 : 259 – 60 ) can be illustrated by sentences such as : ( 11 ) I am glad ( happy , delighted , pleased , proud , sorry , angry , ashamed , disappointed , surprised , astonished ) to see you here . |
| 14 | More recently this has received added support from the environmental lobby , which has also looked askance at all but the most picturesque forms of employment being introduced into rural areas . |
| 15 | Since then , Oral Rehydration Therapy , as the treatment has become known , has received growing support from organisations such as the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) and the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) . |
| 16 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 17 | Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether . |
| 18 | Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 . |
| 19 | If the petitioner has received any payment from the debtor since the petition was presented or the debtor has entered into an arrangement with the petitioner for the securing or compounding of the debt , the affidavit must state what dispositions of property the debtor has made so as to pay the debt or secure or compound for it , whether any property disposed of was the property of the debtor himself or some other person , and if the property was that of the debtor himself , whether the disposition was made with the approval of the court ( r 6.32(2) ) . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he has received any representations from the Confederation of British Industry concerning wage levels . |
| 21 | He has received short shrift from the CEGB , having recently been moved to an out-of-the-way office at Barnwood , the central headquarters base for the board 's engineering development and design teams . |
| 22 | Of the three epithets employed by the section , ‘ insulting ’ has received most attention from the courts . |
| 23 | She will be continuing her TV career with a new series of Fantastic Facts and has received several offers from other companies . |
| 24 | This is an area which has received considerable attention from feminists in recent years , particularly feminist architects and builders in groups such as Matrix , The Women and Built Environment Group and the Feminist Design Co-op , who have begun to challenge traditional attitudes and assumptions held within the architecture profession . |
| 25 | The Cove in Gilmerton has aroused widespread interest from local historians . |
| 26 | The expansion of the Wytch Farm site in Dorset has aroused considerable anxiety from local people and conservation interests , and the Dorset County Council has imposed many hundreds of planning conditions on the developers as a result . |
| 27 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 28 | ‘ It needs to acquire some teeth from somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 29 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 30 | It can be seen in this chapter that Green has given clear directions from where the picture should be painted . |