Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOUSEWIFE Alma Brownrigg , who emigrated from Chelmsford , Essex , to Malta has received a bill from Eastern Electricity for 1p . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is open to a company to complain that a competitor has received a subsidy from a public authority which is incompatible with the Treaty of Rome . |
| 4 | Aerospatiale has received a follow-on-contract from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States for ten TB-9 Tampicos , with options for a further sixteen . |
| 5 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 6 | Zenith Electronics Corp , Glenview , Illinois reports that it has received a commitment from two major institutional lenders for a new $90m revolving credit agreement that is good until December 31 next year . |
| 7 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 8 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 9 | He has yet to receive his cheque but has received a letter from BR 's legal department to say it is on its way . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | She has received a letter from Liverpool Council threatening court action if she does not pay her arrears . |
| 12 | The Sultan of Brunei has received a doctorate from Oxford University . |
| 13 | Business in Scotland has received a boost from our creation of Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 14 | The movement to elevate the professional status of nurses has received a boost from the new federal Minister for Health , Senator Graham Richardson . |
| 15 | We have not discussed one particular aspect before but it has happened that a client has withdrawn a company from sale for reasons other than the lack of an acceptable ( to the client ) buyer . |
| 16 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 17 | Just a wellie-chuck from the Welsh border , the town has earned a living from the land for centuries . |
| 18 | This year the scheme has won a grant from Children in Need but the cheque will be sent back if local people continue to snub the event , she added . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 22 | But after seeing Celtic sensationally overturn a two-goal deficit against Cologne and Stuttgart land in the dock for fielding too many foreigners against Leeds , Francis said : ‘ Their League has suffered a bit from an exodus of top stars to Italy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 26 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 27 | ‘ The Prefect has had a call from the Minister . |
| 28 | Can not be , because she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well and living in Wapping . |
| 29 | Bell Atlantic Corp 's Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia has had a fillip from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which raised its senior unsecured debt rating to double-A-plus from double-A , affecting about $265m of debt , the move being made in the expectation that the company 's network modernisation and supportive regulation will help it to improve an already strong debt service capacity . |
| 30 | THIS CURIOUSLY wart-like plastic troll ( right ) , currently clawing its way from Seventies ' oblivion to Nineties cool-kitsch , has had a boost from Wrangler . |