Example sentences of "received a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 2 | In October 1990 , Hamadi Jebali , who is a member of the executive council of Hizb al-Nahda , had received a six month 's suspended sentence and a fine of 1500 dinars for publishing an article entitled ‘ The people of the State or the State of the people ? ’ in Al-Fajr in June 1990 . |
| 3 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 4 | Likewise , American family eating concepts such as Whitbread 's TGI Fridays have received a warm welcome from the paying public . |
| 5 | The October bank holiday proposal has received a muted response from Employment Minister Michael Howard , who said he was open to persuasion but had no plans to make changes . |
| 6 | For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom . |
| 7 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 8 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 9 | Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines . |
| 10 | She said she had received a ‘ friendly and brotherly ’ reply from Dr Runcie . |
| 11 | Sir Derek believes he should not be held to blame since the fraud occurred in the accounts of International Signal and Control , which had received a ‘ clean ’ audit when Ferranti bought the company two years ago . |
| 12 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 13 | The dog had received a massive electric shock , his children also received shocks and his wife , in trying to comfort the dog , received a nasty bite to her hand . |
| 14 | According to Ian Lindsey , a director of Save & Prosper , if the agency had obtained authorisation there is ‘ no way ’ Mr Rundle could have received a refund . |
| 15 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 16 | He has received a leaked internal memo which he said indicates a ‘ cosy relationship ’ has been established between Safety Authority and Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium that will own and operate the tunnel . |
| 17 | Pensioner 's received a 5.9 per cent increase in the state pension last April . |
| 18 | It appeared that the slit trench he was in during the bombardment had received a direct hit . |
| 19 | The Association was also pleased to learn that Dowding House at Moffat had received a ‘ Special Mention ’ in the 1990 Civic Trust Awards . |
| 20 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 21 | The recommendations have received a mixed welcome from the Angling Foundation . |
| 22 | I have just received a request ( not quite a demand ) from Expotel for £350 ( +10% commission on bookings ) to join its hotel database , otherwise I risk falling off its screens . |
| 23 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
| 24 | At least one exceedingly wet Old Etonian baronet ( oh , all right then : Sir George Young ) has received a rude note from another even wetter Old Etonian baronet ( yes , you 're right : Sir Ian Gilmour ) deploring his decision to vote for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | Orlando Aravena , the national team coach , has received a life ban from international soccer and a five-year ban at domestic level . |
| 26 | Although it is perhaps a cause of some concern that of the 8,000 trading member firms , some 4,000 have not yet received a compliance visit . |
| 27 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 28 | In the meantime all those due to appear in the FA Cup third round in the New Year have received a letter from Lancaster Gate reminding them that the FA has the power to throw them out of the competition if their players become involved in mass brawls . |
| 29 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 30 | This year Michael had received a special briefing from the Bond Corporation to check the source of leaks of some highly confidential commercial information . |