Example sentences of "be to get [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 2 | And schools in Thame are to get more help encouraging pupils to play more football under the Oxford United School Community Programme . |
| 3 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 4 | With all the cat rods out we returned to the carp rods and decided to start fishing with sweetcorn and luncheon meat all on straight running leger rigs , the idea being to get some indication of any activity early on . |
| 5 | This was a serious problem , and her instructions were to get any patient in this condition to the city hospital , eight miles away . |
| 6 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 7 | But Mr Reynolds declared : ‘ Our first priority is to get all parties around the table , and we would not want to do anything at this stage that might hinder the process . |
| 8 | ‘ All you 've got to do , Joanna , is to get that leg put right . |
| 9 | ‘ The only thing I 'm thinking of is to get that desire back into the side . |
| 10 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said : ‘ The health authority and I have been lobbying health ministers for some months and I am delighted Darlington is to get this scanner . |
| 11 | Keep in mind that your real objective is to get this unit running smoothly and efficiently . |
| 12 | In fact , the real point is to get this department functioning efficiently . |
| 13 | ‘ What I wish , ’ she said , ‘ is to get this visit to wherever we 're going over with as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 14 | That is a degree of how desperate he is to get this thing settled . ’ |
| 15 | A good way of traffic calming is to get more people to use public transport . |
| 16 | Is that the right sort of , if our I mean from our objective is to get more sales |
| 17 | This is not an aim — this is a method ; the aim underpinning this response is to get another agency to take on the family . |
| 18 | Now we 'd better get on if Mr Lawler is to get those grouse in time . ’ |
| 19 | I mean what what ideally I 'd like to do is to go is to get those qualifications and then move into back into the field of of archaeology working with |
| 20 | In Rangoon port the import tonnage has equalled pre-war records , but the difficulty is to get enough transport to take the goods and machinery to other parts of the country . |
| 21 | What I am suggesting is you knew there was an armed man in the flat , you were worried he was under the bed and if only concern was to get that bed up and over to check he was n't there , you did n't bother to wait to get Julie off it . |
| 22 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 23 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 24 | The trick was to get this bitch out of his life as soon as possible . |
| 25 | Commander Richard Compton-Hall , museum director , said that the first step in salvage was to get any party with a claim to the wreck to relinquish it to the museum . |