Example sentences of "[noun] gets [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |
| 2 | On letting a tyre down , for example , the valve becomes cold because of the loss of pressure of the escaping air ; conversely , the valve gets hot when the pressure is increased and the tyre is pumped up . |
| 3 | The precious , vulnerable new ley gets neglected or misused and gradually tumbles down to a less demanding , less productive permanent pasture . |
| 4 | As the fighting gets wilder and feet jab out |
| 5 | When the fighting gets close and deadly , as it always does , you 'll be glad to have them . |
| 6 | Under the 1978 Act , which incorporates the terms of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , redundancy may arise if the work needed to be done by an employee gets less or becomes unnecessary ( in changed economic conditions ) or is expected to diminish or come to an end . |
| 7 | ‘ A normal boxer gets tired and stays tired , but why has Eubank gone 33 fights without losing ? |
| 8 | It 's getting steeper , and then , speed gets slower until it stops again . |
| 9 | The child gets hot and blotchy , sweating and distressed , sometimes tearful . |
| 10 | If the child gets better when certain foods are excluded , then they should be reintroduced to check that they were the source of the trouble . |
| 11 | As the child gets older and time orientations lengthen , the reward may be delayed ; gratification may occur days , weeks , months or even years later , and this may result in a ‘ work ethic ’ style in which persistence becomes a sub-goal in itself . |
| 12 | Initially , like Tom , all children are unsteady , but with A-T the wobbliness gets worse because the nervous system is affected . |
| 13 | Joan , responding to the beauty of St Patrick 's beloved mountains , reckons she has come home : ‘ Graeme gets bored and wants to be off and doing new things . |
| 14 | His dancing gets wilder and wilder . ) |
| 15 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 16 | So we 're exceedingly well off really for the size of the club and my trip to Amazon , up the Amazon collecting fish gets nearer and nearer |
| 17 | Monie gets tough when she wants to — she has to , living in New York . |
| 18 | As Matthew gets older and larger , we may need more help . |
| 19 | A line of 60 characters printed on a typewriter looks OK but a 6″ line of type set at 10pt is virtually unreadable , simply because the eye gets bored and stops short of the end . |
| 20 | This poor shelf gets worse and worse ! |
| 21 | You know , where you put a penny by each week in case your nipper gets sick and dies . |
| 22 | ‘ Today there is such a plethora of offers available in the stores that the average shopper gets overwhelmed and confused , ’ she says . |
| 23 | His bit gets excited and itches . |
| 24 | As the resistance gets higher and higher the current goes down . |
| 25 | The noise gets louder and louder and we wonder if they are beating their children . |
| 26 | All this , of course , means that the end user gets better and more functional applications , as exemplified by DesignWorks 1.2 , the most recent upgrade to GST 's vector graphics application . |
| 27 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 28 | Er yeah , but when you 've got a big pile of papers your judgement gets impaired after you 've you 've er |
| 29 | Now what if what happens as N gets bigger and bigger as it 's done more and more |
| 30 | Sometimes the skin gets inflamed and , often on the face , sores can develop which ooze serum . |