Example sentences of "[noun pl] to get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
| 2 | Er I was , I was quite happy , I take the point er missing the points about the squash club , the tennis club because these are opportunities to get other names . |
| 3 | The avoidance of the third scenario may require the use of a consortium of microorganisms to get complete mineralisation of the toxic waste . |
| 4 | It is very important for parents to get professional help as soon as they recognize any of these warning signs . |
| 5 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
| 6 | ‘ I use it for a couple of songs every night , but because I do n't use effects — I just plug into an amp — I always use different guitars to get different tones . |
| 7 | That is indeed part of their strategy but the fact of the matter is that the county council is wholly implicated in the efforts that have been made in this erm county over the last couple of years to get large scale inward investment . |
| 8 | The report calls for continuing efforts to get early authorisation for the work at Kingmoor , north of Carlisle , in addition to other priority signalling schemes at London Euston , Birmingham and between Weaver and Liverpool . |
| 9 | In pursuit of this , he renewed his efforts to get new players , and was rewarded with two promising youngsters , outside-right Bainbridge , from Seaton Delaval , and inside-right Price , from Worksop . |
| 10 | In cases where women ( and the children they directly control ) collect forest products of one type or another , it is they who are most aware of any deterioration in resource availability , but who are often an inaccessible but important target group in agricultural extension efforts to get conservation methods accepted . |
| 11 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 12 | In efforts to get fresh air circulating through the boat quickly , her conning tower hatch and possibly one on her casing were opened before full buoyancy had been achieved . |
| 13 | ‘ Our information is that there is no problem for paramilitaries to get new recruits . ’ |
| 14 | SAS/EIS uses object-oriented techniques and offers a fourth-generation language , enabling non-techies to get meaningful use from the system . |
| 15 | Patients to get new-look welcome at hospital |
| 16 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC ( UX No 434 ) , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM/Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 17 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM-Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , which was the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 18 | Planting in pots and other containers calls for simple though necessary techniques to get good results , and these vary a little depending on whether the container is clay ( or stone ) , or plastic of some kind , and on which type of compost is being used . |
| 19 | 101 Ways to get Great Publicity |
| 20 | In the West Indies , they had no proper education and so did n't have the qualifications to get good jobs . |
| 21 | This makes manufacturers more willing to take lower prices to get established Stateside . |
| 22 | Thorpe Park recommend that you plan your day out for a visit of more than six hours to get maximum enjoyment from your outing . |
| 23 | She then had to visit two hairdressers to get independent reports — and both said that whoever had permed her hair was incompetent . |
| 24 | BILL MILLAR finds union leaders and business chiefs unimpressed by plans to get unemployed people back to work |
| 25 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 26 | It is comparatively rare for these kinds of cases to get widespread coverage across many newspapers , and even more unusual for these cases to receive sustained coverage . |
| 27 | Well I think the er right honourable gentleman knows for both I and my right honourable friend the chancellor have made the position quite clear , that the extra value added tax is a vital part of our policies to get public borrowing down but that we will be offering help to people who are vulnerable . |
| 28 | I think that he refers to our attempts to get cost-effective expansion . |
| 29 | Our expenses are unnecessarily high because of postage and telephone calls in attempts to get overdue information . |
| 30 | Successful attempts to get local people to participate in official conservation programmes may have increased in post-colonial times , but there are many cases of governments choosing coercion rather than participation , for example : |