Example sentences of "[adj] to get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is enough to mount a convincing argument , in this instance by someone who is prepared to get dirty hands for her convictions ; which is not to say that she must convince everyone .
2 It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search .
3 ‘ Their warehouses hare full of unsaleable stock , so it 's only too easy to get cheap books ; and a member of the public does n't know the difference between a previous edition of , say , the Oxford Companion to English Literature selling for £5 and the new edition selling for £25 — especially since the new edition is n't always better . ’
4 It ai n't always easy to get economic forecasts right .
5 However it is n't easy to get reliable information on what to give , and when .
6 It is all too easy to get foreign bodies into the pipe , which will wreak havoc with pumps and valves at a later date . , .
7 64k mode is not covered in the manual at all , unfortunately , and even after experimentation — loading the supplied VGA-BIOS program , which improved things a little — it proved impossible to get correct colour values onscreen .
8 I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany .
9 It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives .
10 It is impossible to get sensible statistics from it .
11 It proved impossible to get British Telecom round to fix the phone until Thursday afternoon .
12 It is impossible to get fresh oil two months after the event , ’ he said .
13 Legal sources say a member of the public facing similar charges would be very lucky to get legal aid for one junior barrister .
14 Her mother had suffered a rare disorder which causes parents to make their children ill to get medical attention .
15 I think it is fair to say that in practical terms you are likely to get substantial life out of the tool before the original battery is spent , perhaps several years .
16 None of these categories of patient so far are likely to get private insurance cover .
17 Because they 're most likely to get social support if anybody 's going get anything .
18 As my hon. Friend clearly knows far more about the Bill than does the Secretary of State , I am far more likely to get sensible answers out of him .
19 Editors always assume that photographs from PR sources can be used free of charge , and any PR outfit which tries to charge for pictures is likely to get short shrift .
20 A call for opposition party pacts to put up single candidates against Conservative MPs and seek the ‘ total defeat ’ of the Tories as the only way to ensure a Scottish parliament is also likely to get short shrift from the leadership .
21 In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated .
22 Hacking and the BEA engineers were , Smith felt , reluctant to press hard to get additional boiler manufacturing capacity .
23 Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets .
24 Poor to get extra help with VAT costs Major forced to step in over fuel bill row
25 ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’
26 ‘ It 's good to get different guitar sounds , ’ he insists .
27 For example , it might be very useful to get verbal agreement , in principle , from the head of computing studies for the release of a microcomputer for the duration of the project .
28 It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law .
29 And he 's concerned to get great power co-operation to solve the Greek er er problem .
30 It 's important to get good instruction on dry slopes so that you do n't get into bad habits before you start on the real stuff .
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