verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patient receives treatment/a drug
▪ Twelve of these patients were receiving treatment with a new drug.
accept/receive a delivery
▪ Someone must be at home to accept the delivery.
an accepted/received notion (=an idea that most people believe)
▪ These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
be gratefully received
▪ All contributions will be gratefully received.
earn/get/receive a salary
▪ She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.
get/gain/receive a majority
▪ If no one gets an overall majority, the vote is repeated.
get/have/receive treatment
▪ Two boys received treatment for gunshot wounds.
get/receive a boost
▪ The community will get a boost from a new library and recreation center.
get/receive a compliment
▪ The exhibition has received a lot of compliments from the public.
get/receive a discount
▪ You get a discount if you book more than ten tickets.
get/receive a mention
▪ This type of research rarely gets a mention in the media.
get/receive a nomination
▪ The film got the nomination for Best Drama.
get/receive a pension
▪ They receive the basic state pension.
get/receive a sentence (also be given a sentence)
▪ She was given a three-year prison sentence.
get/receive a welcome
▪ He received a warm welcome.
get/receive aid
▪ Ethiopia receives less foreign aid than any other developing country.
get/receive an answer
▪ She wrote to him but she never got an answer.
get/receive an apology
▪ He received a formal apology from the company.
get/receive an award
▪ He is the youngest person ever to receive the award.
get/receive an education
▪ Some children grow up without receiving any education.
get/receive an email
▪ Within seconds, I got an email confirming the booking.
get/receive an invitation
▪ Did you get an invitation to Janet's party?
get/receive an offer
▪ He received the offer of a place at Cambridge University.
get/receive assistance
▪ She got no assistance from her family.
get/receive help from sb
▪ You will be able to get confidential help from your doctor.
get/receive help
▪ She gets no help from her husband.
get/receive information
▪ It is vital that people receive the information they need.
get/receive mail
▪ Did we get any mail this morning?
get/receive your reward
▪ If you work hard, you will get your reward.
get/receive/obtain/win approval
▪ For over twenty years it was impossible for NASA to get approval for this mission.
give/seek/receive an assurance (that)
▪ He gave an assurance that the work would be completed by Wednesday.
have/get/receive a telephone call
▪ I had a telephone call from George this morning.
have/receive a visit from sb
▪ I've just had a visit from Lou Stacey.
have/receive notice
▪ If I’d had more notice, I could have done a better job.
receive a complaint (also have a complaint)
▪ Our department has received a number of complaints from the public.
receive a donation
▪ The party received a £100,000 donation from a local businessman.
receive a gift
▪ He received a gift from his aunt.
receive a grant
▪ It is likely that you will receive a grant to cover your tuition.
receive (a) payment
▪ You will receive a cash payment on your 65th birthday.
receive a positive etc response (=get it)
▪ The proposal has received a positive response from most left-wing voters.
receive a punishment
▪ He received the maximum punishment.
receive a report
▪ Amnesty has received repeated reports of violation of detention procedures.
receive a request
▪ They had received two urgent requests for assistance.
receive a setback
▪ The islands’ economy had received a severe setback from the effects of hurricane Hugo.
receive an injectionformal
▪ The boxer received an injection of the drug before the fight.
receive an inquiryformal:
▪ The television station has received several inquiries from viewers requesting a repeat of the programme.
receive an order
▪ The general says he received no order to withdraw.
receive an ultimatum
▪ We received an ultimatum from the army demanding our surrender.
receive care
▪ Every citizen has the right to receive health care.
receive comments
▪ It is very helpful to receive comments from the public.
receive compensation
▪ Some people have received compensation from the government for the loss of their homes.
receive consideration
▪ All applications for a university place receive consideration.
receive notification
▪ You should receive notification of the results within a week.
receive/be given/get recognition
▪ Younger women artists are now getting wider recognition.
received a...fillip
▪ British athletics received a tremendous fillip when Wells won the Gold.
Received Pronunciation
received...death sentence
▪ He received a death sentence.
receive/get/achieve/score a rating
▪ The Department of Computer Science received a top rating last year.
receive/get/have coverage
▪ The exhibition has received extensive coverage in the press.
receive/have/undergo training
▪ A small group would receive intensive training, and then would train others.
receive/obtain/get a mandate
▪ On this issue he does seem to have received a clear mandate from the electorate.
receive/pick up a signal
▪ The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish.
send/receive a copy of sth
▪ Could you send me a copy of the agreement?
suffer/receive a blow
▪ Our team suffered a blow when Paul was sent off the field.
suffer/receive a wound
▪ The victim had suffered multiple wounds to his back and stomach.
sustain/receive an injuryformal (= suffer an injury)
▪ She sustained an injury to her hip.
win/draw/receive etc plaudits
▪ Her performance won plaudits from the critics.
win/earn/receive praise
▪ The trade deal won praise from the American business community.
win/receive/earn rave reviews
▪ The performance earned them rave reviews from critics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The winner will also receive £1,000 worth of Sainsbury's wine.
▪ It also received her welcoming smile, as did a beautiful goldfinch that came down and perched on her toes.
▪ The submitter also receives an additional mail message if the package has been denied, giving the reason for approval being denied.
▪ At participating resorts, guests also receive free extras such as breakfast or golf clinics.
▪ The beaches may also receive nutrients running off the land, especially near estuaries or sewage outfalls.
▪ Managers also receive a removal grant of £1290 and other staff receive £1135.
▪ In addition to these benefits, workers at Sumac Ashpa also receive some of the highest cash wages in the region.
■ NOUN
answer
▪ Both questions have to receive affirmative answers, and they are not mutually exclusive.
▪ Kate never received an answer to this letter, for it never reached Minnie.
▪ I've delivered the message, and I've received your answer.
▪ When Tabachnikov asked open-ended questions, she rarely received an answer.
▪ He thumped his hand on it twice and, receiving no answer, used his keys and entered.
▪ I asked, never receiving a satisfy-ing answer.
▪ Once all the tenders had been received, the answers were scored.
▪ You can also leave a question and receive an answer by mail or telephone call within a week.
apology
▪ A POLL-TAX payer has received an apology from Middlesbrough Council after an unexpected visit by the bailiffs.
▪ Brosnan said he did not receive an apology from the band.
▪ I called again on Tuesday and received an apology from a senior sales rep.
▪ Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
approval
▪ Since 1979 when the Conservatives came to power Durham Constabulary has received approval for 40 extra officers, a three percent increase.
▪ Aztar Corp. received final approval in December to open a riverboat casino in Evansville.
▪ The draft had received Cabinet approval on Dec. 7.
▪ They worry about not receiving the approval of teachers, parents, and peers.
▪ The company hopes to receive approval to put the product on the market within the next few months.
▪ Newton and Marie Shank received final approval to build 10 single-family homes on 17.35 acres. 11.
▪ This, however, must have been a rare occurrence; most bishops will have received royal approval as canonically required.
▪ The agreement must still receive federal regulatory approval, which has been held up by the government shutdown.
attention
▪ Jones received medical attention on the canvas and spent the night in hospital for observation.
▪ Each has received her undivided attention.
▪ The Promenade track receiving the attention of a vigorous track gang near Central Pier.
▪ Maybe DWEMs received so much attention in the past because they deserved it.
▪ In contrast, it is the ergonomics of the hardware and the physical environment that have received most attention.
▪ My experience is that all the processes should be receiving attention, all the time.
▪ Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained.
▪ Indeed, traditionally, phrases and sentences have received more attention than the words that make them up.
award
▪ Underlying Mr Singh's campaign has been an implication that boys receiving awards and honours have not really been deserving of them.
▪ Indeed, by the time the whole hubbub had died down, he had received twenty-two such humanitarian awards.
▪ As a specialist in pathology, physiology and pharmacology, Mrs Coll received many teaching awards.
▪ In 1970 received a long service award and a gold watch from.
▪ To receive the award, he had to drink a full glass of straight lemon juice without grimacing.
benefit
▪ You may receive a reduction or benefit or both.
▪ Teamster drivers, meanwhile, had gone more than a month receiving only strike benefits of $ 55 a week.
▪ It wasn't until the early 1950s that ferreters began to receive the benefits of locator systems.
▪ Workers are paid in glass, receive their social benefits in glass and must sell the glass to stay alive.
▪ After I had been receiving workers' compensation benefits for a month, my employer laid me off.
▪ A person unwittingly cheated of his entitlement because of official error would receive backdated benefit when the error was discovered.
▪ All of the patients received the benefit of a multi-modal treatment program.
boost
▪ High note: A scanner appeal has hit a high note after receiving a boost from Cleveland police.
▪ In November 1993 the school district received an added boost when the Oregon Business Council selected it as a partner.
▪ Earlier in the day, bonds received a boost as the central bank said it would buy government bonds outright.
▪ The rundown remains of Liverpool Castle a replica of King John's famous fortress have received a £40,000 cash boost.
▪ It the technology takes off, Polaroid could receive a much needed boost.
call
▪ During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m.
▪ The caller gets a recorded message that says you are not receiving blocked calls.
▪ Which reminded me: the night before leaving we received a call from Dave.
▪ Lieutenant Uhura keeps receiving obscene interstellar calls.
▪ I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close.
▪ You receive a panicky call from a department head.
▪ Some months later I received an emotional telephone call from my happy former patient.
▪ Blue said her office had never received threatening phone calls and had not been the target of demonstrations.
complaint
▪ Most of the major services have received numerous complaints from users who have been conned into purchasing illegal software.
▪ The department occasionally receives complaints about health clubs, usually alleging a club did not fulfill promises about its facility or equipment.
▪ He eventually received a stack of complaints about adverse reactions, including cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, and severe diarrhea.
▪ The Press Complaints Commission had received only one complaint by last night.
▪ The Humane Society, Wright said, has received five complaints about the business since 1991.
▪ The authority, which received five complaints, concluded that the claim was not justified.
▪ The company routinely recalls tainted products, but usually after receiving complaints from customers.
copy
▪ He struck a deal with the International Postal Union and received a copy of every stamp issued anywhere in the world.
▪ You must also sign a written contract and receive a copy of it for the contract to be legally binding.
▪ Do governors automatically receive copies of all newsletters for parents and an invitation to school events?
▪ Swissair received a copy of a service bulletin from Boeing last week.
▪ Do mid-day supervisors, cooks, cleaners, caretaker and crossing patrol receive copies?
▪ Every member receives a free copy and these directories are also supplied to contractors, agents and venues.
▪ You will receive a copy of the report and have the opportunity to discuss it in an interview.
▪ Poster Competition All members will have received their copies of Medau News by now.
education
▪ Are these the partnership circumstances in which we want children to receive nursery education?
▪ Each young man displays high intelligence and receives an excellent education in colonial schools.
▪ In the school, children are expected to receive the education of the book.
▪ I received an extraordinary education from the public schools, but also from one other source-the New York Public Library.
▪ They had to be twenty-five years old, to have received at least secondary education, and to be substantial property-owners.
▪ I received an outstanding education, tuition free.
▪ In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 percent were receiving a formal education.
▪ City would have consisted instead of relatively successful graduates of the public schools and immigrants who had received a solid education abroad.
gift
▪ Everyone who enters the competition will receive a small gift..
▪ I never learned why the Vanyas singled me out to receive this gift.
▪ The author of each issue's Letter of the Month will receive a special gift of art materials.
▪ Every child received a beautiful gift from the company.
▪ Demonstrators whoop and holler as colleagues receive gifts ... a Tupperware colander ... an Oriental rug.
▪ Members in three units receive gift certificates for meeting their goal four consecutive weeks.
▪ Right: Jeff Lowe receives a parting gift from Chris Bonington.
▪ Jacob must insist that Esau receives his gifts, because of what they represent.
information
▪ And fax machines that enable you to send and receive pages of information anywhere in the world - in seconds.
▪ Police said they arrested the Adkinsons Wednesday because they had received information that the couple might be leaving town.
▪ We use language in this country in order to understand each other, and to give and receive information.
▪ All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape.
▪ Unlike a computer the brain does more than receive information.
▪ One is technological, empowering individuals to receive and distribute the information they want when they want it.
▪ Did the teacher receive plenty of information about pupils' thoughts? 4.
▪ Communications is a process of. exchange-a giving and receiving of information.
invitation
▪ Every club in the country should be receiving an invitation to enter.
▪ The list includes such information as Social Security numbers, and how often a person has received White House social invitations.
▪ He won the Championship in September 1991, but received his invitation only a couple of months ago.
▪ Two of the Volunteers attended, even though they had not received the customary formal invitations.
▪ Since taking office, you have received many invitations to similar events hosted by the Conservative and Reform movements.
▪ He accepted and asked another member of the staff, who had received a similar invitation, to accompany him.
▪ Edgar Linton entered, his handsome face full of delight at receiving Catherine's unexpected invitation.
▪ At the end of two months she received no invitation to live at any of their houses.
letter
▪ There was no point now in telling Bartocci about the letter he had received.
▪ The letters were received by news organizations Thursday and were apparently mailed by Hamilton in the hours before the killings.
▪ Was the reservation letter received by him merely a promise as to the future or was it a statement of present fact?
▪ Molly often stayed in her office late into the night, responding by hand to the vast numbers of letters we received.
▪ I do not dare print some of the letters I have received due to the almost unbelievable implications.
▪ From the letters he's received and through talking to audiences, he knows the production is a popular one.
▪ She reads the sexy letters my sister has received from a lover during her marriage.
message
▪ He received the same message as Sir Ralph.
▪ As he expected, Manion received an e-mail message from Philippe Fontaine requesting a meeting on the following Tuesday.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message.
▪ Move to Autonomy: Setting Limits Children who receive affection and messages of acceptance are likely to feel secure.
▪ The submitter also receives an additional mail message if the package has been denied, giving the reason for approval being denied.
▪ He began to receive messages purporting to come from his deceased friend, who had been a radio operator.
▪ They will then go to the nearest telephone and receive their message from the operator.
▪ I now receive a message that it will run out in a couple of weeks.
million
▪ Simply for completing the sequence ahead of schedule, Myriad received a $ 3 million bonus.
▪ He did receive another $ 1 million in salary payments, they said.
▪ He received £35 million net for his shares in Clarke Securities.
▪ Thanong received $ 10 million in cash for the marijuana shipments, the indictment alleges.
▪ The Duenas received $ 4 million in compensation.
▪ San Diego County received about $ 113 million from the tax in fiscal 1994-95.
▪ The balance is owned by Taylor &038; Mathis, an Atlanta real-estate concern, which will receive $ 13 million.
▪ Over the past fiscal year, the school received $ 250 million in federal dollars for 1, 600 projects.
money
▪ The offer is made when the proprietor of the machine holds it out as being ready to receive the money.
▪ Allow church-related drug-rehabilitation programs to receive taxpayer money.
▪ As a married student he received extra money.
▪ Only Porter, Liddy and Magruder had received large amounts of money.
▪ The players, without whom there would be no World Cup, are not receiving any money.
▪ However, Redmond and Manschreck acknowledged that they had not billed for or received any money for the advance planning.
▪ Unacknowledged when it was received, the contra money was also unacknowledged when spent.
▪ In addition to endorsements, Dole has received more money from South Carolinians than his top three competitors combined.
patient
▪ The latter's research suggests that patients receiving clozapine may well cost services less over time by producing more positive clinical outcomes.
▪ This combination of acid-base disturbances may be seen in postoperative patients receiving nasogastric suction who are hyperventilating because of pain and stress.
▪ All five patients receiving oral cyclosporin had a remission but relapse occurred within three months of discontinuing the drug.
▪ The policies at Carville for patients receiving treatment at that institution would be liberalized.
▪ Instead of berths, patients were received from hospital ships in hanging cots.
▪ The patient is receiving nasal oxygen.
▪ These will be in effect, a statement of the treatment and care a patient should receive with associated standards attached.
▪ This summary is intended to be an Overview of the care a patient may receive whilst on a general surgical ward.
payment
▪ The purpose of the tax certificate is to permit a sub-contractor to receive payment from a builder without deduction of tax.
▪ Two days before the event, the campaign had received payment for only 750 tickets.
▪ The bowyer was hovering expectantly, his hand not quite extended to receive payment.
▪ It will be another five years before welfare recipients start becoming ineligible to receive welfare payments underwritten by the federal government.
▪ The solicitor guaranteed they would receive payment for their labours as though the Putts were still alive.
▪ Plaintiffs will need to inform the courts immediately if they receive payment from the defendant before the hearing.
▪ We may receive some payment in September 1994 if we achieve targets.
▪ By the end of 1922 many relatives of war casualties began to receive small social-welfare payments.
pension
▪ His salary at this time was £1,000, and upon leaving the service he received a pension of £600 p.a.
▪ Tsiolkovskii himself never received a kopek of government funding until he received a pension.
▪ He received a civil list pension in March 1930.
▪ In March, 1989, 40,000 teachers under statutory retirement age were receiving pensions.
▪ As a consequence women could until 1975 opt to pay a lower rate of national insurance and receive a lower retirement pension.
▪ Firstly, women can only receive a pension based on their husband's contributions if he himself is in receipt of a basic pension.
▪ In 1987, 52% of pensioners received an occupational pension.
▪ And she adds: But Alan Govier from Oxford hasn't received a penny in pension payments.
percent
▪ It receives an unprecedented 18 percent increase for this year.
▪ While Jeb Bush received a 56 percent grade, President Bush earned a 52 percent approval rating from respondents.
▪ There, Daf workers who are made redundant will receive 70 percent of their wages for the next four years.
▪ Dole received only 37 percent, and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot got 7 percent.
▪ Shamir received 46.4 percent of the total vote of Likud's 2,800-member central committee.
▪ Ed Schafer has received more than 95 percent of its financial support from North Dakotans.
▪ The successful competitor would also receive the usual 5 percent fees on the cost of the work.
▪ For that, he receives a mouth-watering 70 percent of his subsidy from the city.
prize
▪ Eight graduates received the Nobel Prize, a record for a public institution.
▪ The best tip of the year will receive a prize to the value of £500.
▪ The following year, Lee and Yang received the Nobel prize for their idea.
▪ Morgan received a Nobel prize in 1933, and Muller in 1946.
▪ The first 200 correct winners out of the postbag on Monday, September 14 will receive prizes.
▪ The winner will receive £1,500 from a prize fund of £7,700.
▪ The winning team will receive prizes of office equipment worth thousands of pounds to be used by its respective company.
publicity
▪ It is unlikely that other offers will be submitted, as the sale of the site Will not have received publicity.
▪ When that received bad publicity, he promoted the Texas Guinan fat reducer.
▪ It has been produced because of the telephone enquiries we are now receiving following publicity in the national press.
▪ The previous owners had never received any publicity.
▪ Finally let me record an item put out by Reuters News Agency which did not receive much publicity.
▪ In mid-June the Confederates made another move-not a major one but one that received major publicity.
▪ They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity.
▪ Though it did not receive much publicity, it was a major achievement and long overdue.
reply
▪ He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning, he received only an off-hand reply.
▪ She received no reply, but persisted in her efforts.
▪ They had both written to her in Cairo and also care of Trelawney and neither of them had received a reply.
▪ I received no reply to either letter.
▪ When they tried to question him they received unintelligible replies and realised he was drunk.
▪ Before we had received a reply, Fitzroy Maclean chanced to call at my office.
▪ They were not at all surprised when they didn't receive a single reply.
▪ I have written letters explaining the problem, but as before I still haven't received any reply.
report
▪ The chairman vacates the chair and a Speaker or Deputy Speaker takes it and receives a purely nominal report.
▪ He also routinely received numerous classified reports.
▪ I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents.
▪ We receive reports and advice from the State Board of Health twice a week.
▪ In May we received another referee's report and a letter from the new editor of the journal.
▪ We received a verbal report to say these were a start but needed more detail.
▪ They will receive written reports annually and their children's schools will be inspected every four years.
▪ I received a very comprehensive report - I think some one wanted to put the old boy's mind at rest.
review
▪ The campaign received mixed reviews inside and outside Hollywood, with some accusing Jackson of bad timing.
▪ It received universally ecstatic reviews, and deservedly so.
▪ Stock, who received good reviews from his Minnesota colleagues, will see his pay jump more than $ 17,000 initially.
▪ To ensure these papers receive the extra review they deserve we will post them on the e-print server.
▪ I had a tie on, too, but not the one that had received such good reviews at lunch.
▪ They also say she received a negative performance review from her supervisor.
sentence
▪ They received sentences of four to 13 years, provoking Western condemnation.
▪ She received a three-year prison sentence and was fined $ 1, 500.
▪ They certainly receive more custodial sentences than would normally be predicted from their presence in the population.
▪ Although the court found that she was not a militant member of the guerrilla group, she received a maximum sentence.
▪ He received a five-year suspended sentence.
▪ The crime was extremely brutal, as was Ferguson's treatment of his crew, and he received the death sentence.
▪ As a result, he said, he was convicted in 1982 and received a six-year sentence.
support
▪ Final regulations were only received in early December, and regulations for calculating transitional support were not received until mid-December.
▪ The nurturing and support they received in labor gave them a deep sense of accomplishment and trust in them-selves.
▪ This means that support which in-laws receive from each other is ambiguous in a way which does not apply to other relationships.
▪ Perhaps most important, the crucial support that California scientists received from both public and private sources is in danger.
▪ Additionally, those entitled to income support receive full help with their rent and up to 80 percent assistance with their community charge.
▪ The trade-off was the socializing and support received from the other patients and families.
▪ The resistance to labouring class poets is balanced in some respects by the support they received.
▪ Many thousands more who do not get income support receive some help towards their rent and/or community charge.
telephone
▪ Some time ago I received a frantic telephone call from Carol, who had undergone successful hypnotic treatment about two years earlier.
▪ The managers began to receive telephone calls from people in other parts of the company blaming them for their subordinates' behavior.
▪ The Northern has received telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening.
▪ Within hours of opening on Wednesday, the hotline had received 60 telephone calls, officials said.
▪ However, less than a month later, I received a telephone call from the home.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message.
▪ I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close.
▪ Some months later I received an emotional telephone call from my happy former patient.
treatment
▪ The band were pleased with the excellent treatment they received from foreign promoters.
▪ It is, I suppose, divine retribution for the treatment your whiteness receives in certain doctors' surgeries.
▪ We appreciated that long months of solitary on top of the awful treatment he'd received before must have put incredible strains on him.
▪ The therapists and the interviewers who assessed treatment effect were blinded to the drug treatment the patients were receiving.
▪ If people want to prescribe unproved forms of treatment, or to receive them, that is their choice.
▪ He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.
▪ They couldn't answer and became huffy that we weren't satisfied with the good treatment we were receiving.
vote
▪ Although the Council was to have only six members, it was to receive 17 votes.
▪ Perot did not receive even one electoral vote in his 1992 independent campaign for president.
▪ This arose as local businesses paid rates but did not receive a vote.
▪ All five, for better or worse, have received recent votes of confidence from their respective general managers or team presidents.
▪ They replied that their only concern was survival and whatever politician might help them with that would receive their vote.
▪ He received 52 votes while the Communist candidate, Thein pe, got only 33 votes.
▪ Gore received 338,000 more votes, according to the latest figures.
■ VERB
expect
▪ One in five had received no training in the Act and most were expecting to receive none during the next six months.
▪ As he expected, Manion received an e-mail message from Philippe Fontaine requesting a meeting on the following Tuesday.
▪ Selling forward means selling the foreign currency today for delivery at the time you expect to receive it from your customer.
▪ And we let him know we understood that and that we expected to receive a comparable benefit for ourselves in that regard.
▪ Often they had, and if so might expect to receive a polite reply.
▪ The Tigers are once again favored to win the sectional, but expect Warsaw to receive a huge challenge from Plymouth.
▪ I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents.
▪ In the end, however, injured individuals can expect to receive little.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom
▪ Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
▪ Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
▪ He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
▪ Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
▪ That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.
▪ This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
▪ Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
▪ We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.
get/receive your (just) deserts
▪ Even a low-cal concoction can make us feel that we're getting our just deserts.
▪ From Llewelyn he would get his deserts, and be grateful for them.
▪ He was not a spiteful man, but he had enjoyed the sight of Spatz getting his deserts.
▪ Now the rich and the proud would get their just deserts.
give/receive no quarter
▪ D'Arcy had opened her up, exposing her raw emotions, giving no quarter and taking none.
▪ He says you give no quarter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Are you receiving me?" "Receiving you loud and clear."
▪ Are you still receiving financial aid?
▪ Did Caroline receive an invitation?
▪ He says he never received the fax from us.
▪ Hotel guests may not receive visitors after 10 p.m.
▪ I'm sorry I didn't call earlier, but I've only just received your message.
▪ Officials have received numerous complaints about airport noise.
▪ Police received calls from residents who heard the gunshots.
▪ Richardson received invitations to speak at all three universities.
▪ She received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1990.
▪ Three firefighters received minor injuries while fighting the blaze.
▪ We received your letter the 1st of March.
▪ When she received news of her father's death, she returned home.
▪ You will receive your credit card in approximately two weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He received the appointment, but Parker himself was never sworn into office.
▪ It not only receives, it picks and chooses and processes all it receives.
▪ Many favourable comments were received from teachers and pupils concerning the wide ranging applications and future work opportunities available in Chemistry.
▪ The airline received 14, 760 bids during the auction, which lasted 2 1 / 2 months.
▪ There is no central registry that ensures that only a tiny percentage of women will receive the label.
▪ Those who sneak in say conditions are physically improved but the children receive little of the love and attention they need.
▪ We have received 2, 200 telegrams and 4, 000 letters in response to your Mideast statements....