Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] get " in BNC.
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| 31 | In fact , what we have witnessed has been the spectacle of governments running so hard to get away from this concept that they have been unable to hear the voice of the British business community , pleading that the interest it would like the government to show in its affairs is of a different nature altogether . |
| 32 | Leopold , having worked so hard to get his son reinstated , was naturally incensed . |
| 33 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 34 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 35 | Tried ever so hard to get rid but she could n't , she did n't get rid of it , the other two did . |
| 36 | I get lost myself sometimes , it 's so hard to get to . ’ |
| 37 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 38 | Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets . |
| 39 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
| 40 | and erm but the plane , the er boat was slow in coming and it was so hard to get a ship back then |
| 41 | Yes , yes , that 's right , they use , yeah , but I insisted that it were open doors for you as jobs were so hard to get , I said it were open doors for you and it did it helped them both . |
| 42 | I was so glad to get your letter . |
| 43 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 44 | Oh , I 'll be so glad to get home ! ’ |
| 45 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 46 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 47 | Naturally the passing of the years brought a more responsible approach which made him even more formidable , for he still had all the strokes and all the power but now he was less likely to get out unnecessarily . |
| 48 | Active , occupied children are less likely to get into trouble . |
| 49 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 50 | Meat contains volatile fatty acids which are excreted into the breath , so vegetarians are less likely to get halitosis . |
| 51 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 52 | Your copy will say where it is , less likely to get lost , people will know because he 'll have a copy and can tell your beneficiaries to go an see a solicitor . |
| 53 | If you have one that does n't compact , you you 're best to have one in the middle cos it 's less likely to get pranged there is n't it ? |
| 54 | As a consequence British Prime Ministers may have to work extremely hard to get them to change course . |
| 55 | He is one of the best midfield players in the country , and he 's so quick to get into the box . |
| 56 | It 's especially valuable to get comments on the modules which are in the Programme of Work for that year or the coming year because then we can feed comments from practitioners straight to the Module Development Group . |
| 57 | Already , in some parts of the country , it 's difficult to find a cleaner that uses the CFC 113 process because many have installed new equipment in time for the ban , according to the Textile Services Association , and the situation is only likely to get worse . |
| 58 | Everyone thinks Annunciata was an accident , being so much younger than Clelia , but she was n't , I had to work terribly hard to get Annunciata . |
| 59 | Why are you so urgent to get away from your husband 's house and back to your father 's ? |
| 60 | ’ We have learned things about the galaxy , ’ she replied grimly , ’ and we will be greatly glad to get back to our Ardakke . |