Example sentences of "[adj] get any " in BNC.
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1 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
2 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
3 | For example , if you choose to write an essay on the novel A Very Quiet Street by the contemporary Glasgow author Frank Kuppner , you may not find it easy to get any critical work either on the book itself or on this writer ( since no books may have been written about him ) . |
4 | It was impossible to get any indication since my instructions from the Foreign Office were to negotiate only with Mr Smith and his people and not to have any contact with the black population during the period of my negotiations . |
5 | It was impossible to get any sort of recent financial statement from the company , and it was equally impossible to track down the principal debtors , who were ducking a host of other creditors as well . |
6 | DIY superstores tend to be a little cheaper for plumbing goods , but you will be lucky to get any advice and you may not find unusual fittings . |
7 | ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money ! |
8 | In 1536 Sir Ralph Sadler complained : ‘ I think it will be hard to get any bills signed at this time … . |
9 | ( That and so that Leeds United get any revenue going from the EC matches ) . |
10 | In 1965 , unable to get any work in Hollywood , he moved to New York and drifted around the Lower East Side , cadging money to buy drugs . |
11 | He told the abbot of Fécamp that he had heard that there was a letter of Pope Eugenius ( obviously a corruption of Hyginus ) which had settled the question , but he had been unable to get any information about this alleged source . |
12 | Sabrina followed-him into the room , still unable to get any sort of reading on the Geiger-Muller counter . |
13 | They put it in a bath and filmed it from above the surface of the water as it moved feebly about , but they were unable to get any detailed shots . |
14 | Both Britain and America are in desperate need of this rare commodity and both , if their current crop of politicians is anything to go by , are unlikely to get any . |
15 | ‘ And we 're unlikely to get any . |
16 | Every forecast I have listened to makes me think we are unlikely to get any . ’ |
17 | ‘ The net result for you , I 'm afraid , is that you wo n't be able to get any practice on the ladder . |
18 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
19 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
20 | That night he was unable to sleep and it was only after taking aspirin tablets that he was able to get any rest . |
21 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
22 | If we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it . |
23 | If any child in your family has more than £3000 in savings , you will not be able to get any help with their travel costs to hospital for NHS treatment . |
24 | But you will not be able to get any help with NHS prescription charges . |
25 | But you will not be able to get any help with NHS prescription charges . |
26 | I know of similar things happening in , that are equally bad if not worse , and nobody seems to be able to get any action at all , out of police , District Council , or , so |
27 | Lancasters , the family company specialising in stainless steel cutlery for the catering industry , claims to be able to get any size order , large or small , which can be placed by phone , delivered to the customer within 24 hours by Securicor , with a full money-back guarantee . |
28 | It was midnight before Amiss , back in uniform and trying to look official , was able to get any inside information . |
29 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
30 | I have n't been able to get any tickets for the Word as yet . |