Example sentences of "[noun] get short [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm McLaren got short shrift when he first called on Virgin records in the summer of 1976 , one stop among many in his search for a recording contract for his new protégés . |
| 2 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 3 | The smaller nations get short shrift on somewhat different grounds : in so far as they are affected by general trends , their history recapitulates that of the major states . |
| 4 | I keep thinking of Joyce 's lovely airy , chintzy fiat but any mention gets short shrift . |
| 5 | The hardy perennial question of how an increase in the money stock is divided between a fall in velocity , an increase in output and an increase in prices gets short shrift in the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 6 | In political systems heavily dependent on trading and dealing , matters of principle get short shrift , long-standing problems are not faced and there is little scope for more than modest incremental change . |