Example sentences of "[vb past] received [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , though , Watt 's comments on Chris Eubank 's latest bore left a disturbing impression of a man who 'd received instructions by his ITV masters not to forget that they had a product to sell . |
| 2 | She grinned , happiness radiating from her now that she 'd received Guy 's approval . |
| 3 | The Nuneaton and Bedworth Council claimed it had received letters of protest from residents opposed to a trial scheme to allow fishing on three lakes in the borough . |
| 4 | Relate spokeswoman Zelda West-Meads said last night that her charity and others had received letters pledging continued support from the princess . |
| 5 | He himself had received letters from all over England , seeking his advice on questions of conscience , and found that it was unsatisfactory for Anglicans to have to rely on Roman Catholic literature for guidance in such matters . |
| 6 | Canon Reggie Twaddell of St Mark 's Parish Church said he had received letters of condemnation from as far away as Crete , Cork and Kilkenny after damage to the stained glass windows . |
| 7 | By Jan. 21 Boudiaf had received letters of congratulation on his appointment from the heads of state of Morocco , Tunisia , Libya , Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | According to official figures only 3,000 former contras out of 20,000 involved in the demobilization had received land . |
| 9 | He had received word of the Iran scheme in a stream-of-consciousness memo from McFarlane , delivered to ‘ Secretary Shultz personally and to no other for him ’ , aboard his aircraft on July 13th , 1985 . |
| 10 | However , this appears to be inconsistent with other cases ( see Victoria Fur Traders Ltd v Roadline ( UK ) Ltd [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 570 where the plaintiffs had received air waybills over a period of 25 years and never read the terms on them ) and it seems clear that constructive notice of the terms will suffice . |
| 11 | By contrast , two soldiers and a Timorese policeman had on June 1 received prison sentences ranging from eight to 17 months , while on June 6 two army officers , the last of 10 charged for their direct involvement in the massacre , had received sentences of one year and eight months respectively . |
| 12 | In January and May 1992 , 10 other leftists had received sentences of up to 19 months for similar activities . |
| 13 | African countries had received $895 million in new net transfers , and Asian countries $470 million , but Latin American and Caribbean countries had made net repayments of $2,060 million and European , Middle Eastern and North African countries $982 million . |
| 14 | Of the patients treated within the first hour , the 21 day mortality for those who had received streptokinase was 8.2% , compared to 15.4% for those who had received placebo . |
| 15 | After the patient was admitted to the coronary care unit the placebo was added to those who continued to receive active therapy , and rt-PA to those who had received placebo . |
| 16 | A spokesman for BT yesterday refused to comment on whether the company had received instructions to cut lines . |
| 17 | In the first stage of training the subjects had received instructions to emit a given response ( a key-press in one study , a word in another ) to one of the tones and to the light , but to emit a different response to the other tone . |
| 18 | At the outbreak of war , the casual wards had been closed by order of the Ministry of Health , and the master reported to the committee that on August 31st 1939 , he had received instructions from the medical officer of health to evacuate , 116 patients and children to other institutions within the county to accommodate the patients evacuated from London hospitals . |
| 19 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 20 | But on spying Mitchell 's cherubic features , the proprietor refused to serve him saying he had received instructions by ‘ phone not to . |
| 21 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 22 | And , in 1972 a ‘ clandestine advertising ’ scandal led to a Parliamentary report on ORTF ‘ abuses ’ : programme-makers had received favours from manufacturers to do ‘ product-placement ’ — the frequent use of a given make of car in the same film , for instance . |
| 23 | TORY officials finally admitted last night they had received £440,000 in donations from companies controlled by fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir . |
| 24 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 25 | Suffolk had received £6.5 million of new transfer money from the Government and there was to be no change in the level of funding . |
| 26 | Some sections of the press were apprehensive about the ‘ un-Englishness ’ of an armed police , but within a year 821 police constables had received instruction in the use of firearms — although some of their senior officers believed that their men were ‘ nervous and excitable ’ , ‘ men of excitable temperament ’ who were ‘ not to be trusted to use revolvers with discretion ’ . |
| 27 | The late professor , Mr. Cummyn , had received £100 a year for his services , which was clearly the attraction , and the true note of weary cynicism was provided by Mungo Graeme of Gorthie who , while acknowledging the youth of the candidate , suggested that ‘ a dispensation from the king for him to travell a year or two will make him a very good professor , as good as Cuminyn was ’ . |
| 28 | He had received reports that army ambulances were being ‘ spruced up ’ at a Gloucestershire army depot . |
| 29 | By December 1990 , the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) had received reports of over 305,000 people with AIDS from 179 countries , but they estimate that the true number of cases is likely to be more than 800,000 , with between 8–10 million infected with HIV . |
| 30 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |