Example sentences of "[noun sg] to get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a feature is clearly a waste of time if you are a reasonably expert photographer ( and there is no bar code reader input on the professional EOS models ) , but it helps the non-expert to get good results . |
| 2 | Using a fast film such as 1000ASA , one can use the aquarium lights supplemented by natural light to get reasonable photographs without using flash . |
| 3 | To fit a cylinder thermostat to a pre-insulated cylinder , cut away the insulation to get metal-to-metal contact |
| 4 | His attempt to get legal redress in a particularly flagrant case ( in which the Christmas Carol was pirated virtually wholesale ) proved totally frustrating . |
| 5 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |
| 6 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 7 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 8 | But , for many people all that will ever be needed is a program which provides word processing with the capability to get decent quality print out of a page printer . |
| 9 | Sharpe used only speed to get past players … that s why you do nt see him go past players much anymore … cos he ca nt run fast enough . |
| 10 | What was very difficult to prove — but was much suspected , especially in the late 1940s , at the time of the first Press Commission — was that advertisers used their leverage to get favourable coverage and dampen criticism . |
| 11 | They 'll take no profit from this deal to get Russian children back to school . |
| 12 | Tony it was who organized the bi-weekly dances in the ‘ Sunset Hall ’ as he christened the disused museum , and who scoured the neighbourhood to get regular orders for the cakes Susan made so well . |
| 13 | Intel Scientific is readying a plan to get low-end versions of its i860 RISC-based massively parallel systems into universities and other sites that ca n't afford the full-blow Paragon XP/S models : Paragon 's OSF/1 microkernel operating system is due this month . |
| 14 | Intel Corp 's Intel Scientific is readying a plan to get low-end versions of its 80860 RISC-based massively parallel systems into universities and other sites that ca n't afford the full-blow Paragon XP/S models ; Paragon 's OSF/1 microkernel operating system is due this month . |
| 15 | Lynn Boyle , a social worker from area 2 , told how the Inland Revenue had scuppered a plan to get unemployed women to provide informal care in return for expenses and small payments . |
| 16 | AFTER a year-and-a-half of letter writing , phone calling and door knocking , there are rumours the campaign to get sleeping policemen in St Olaves Road , Bury St Edmunds , has succeeded . |
| 17 | Early today the Government was facing accusations of fighting a dirty and unethical campaign to get Tory MPs to vote for Mr Major . |
| 18 | He was involved in the successful campaign to get Skoal Bandits removed from sale in the UK and in preparing information to be sent to all prospective Parliamentary candidates in Scotland , as well as working on many other projects . |
| 19 | As the expedition nears the summit of the world 's highest mountain , base camp manager Nick Stevenson joined the campaign to get local people to step out for health . |
| 20 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 21 | Others , notably Webb and the Unitarian minister William James from Clifton , were more concerned with the failure to get open sanction of the American Anti-Slavery Society ; to obtain , that is , a repudiation by the BFASS of its own past conduct . |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman , in his swan song at the Dispatch Box , admit that not only has he been the most expensive Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , supporting an increase in CAP spending of 55 per cent. , but that , by his failure to get meaningful reform of the CAP , he has been the most unsuccessful one , as well ? |
| 23 | Terry uses the shop to get extra money every so often , uses my dad ticking over running when he |
| 24 | Their manufacturers are of course trying to place equipment in schools for the purpose of trials but these measures still fall short of the impact need to get serious attention from educational decision makers . |
| 25 | In America corporate bosses and Wall Street are in rare agreement about the need to get retail investors back onto the shareholding registers . |
| 26 | It is that long , this month , since a Government initiative to get British industry more involved in the oil business was launched in the wake of the first North Sea discoveries . |
| 27 | Cathedral to get new organ after £100,000 grant |
| 28 | There are lots of opportunities , particularly for bases in the UK , to use contractors or private enterprise to get cost-efficient services . |
| 29 | Parish council chairman Alec Templeton said members had been trying to find an adventure area to get young bikers away from footpaths and roads because most were not even old enough to be licensed . |
| 30 | The health authority meeting decided to launch a consultation document next month to get widespread opinion on their plans . |