Example sentences of "[be] at the receiving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squatters have long felt they 're at the receiving end of a bad press and have have welcomed tonight 's opportunity to express their side of the story . |
| 2 | The book-collector can obviously fight his corner here with examples from well-known authors and historic figures who either drew the cheques or were at the receiving end . |
| 3 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 4 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 5 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 6 | Although the virtually monosyllabic Palance is at the receiving end of much of Crystal 's sophisticated comic patter , the Marlboro Man is the real philosophical hero of the place , a creature who has honed his life down to one simple idea . |
| 7 | The absence of any correlative obligation on the part of him who is at the receiving end of the transaction may be material , but is not conclusive , in determining whether it contains an element of bounty or not . |