Example sentences of "[noun sg] gets " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 2 | It is not often that a major commanding such a small force gets the opportunity to present his views to the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | The basic idea of GUTs is as follows : As was mentioned above , the strong nuclear force gets weaker at high energies . |
| 4 | When the draught 's okay the flame gets drawn over the bag-wall at the back of the firebox , then it sweeps round the arch of the kiln-chamber , down through the pots into the throat and out up the chimney . |
| 5 | The whole setting is thoroughly authenticated and everything leads nicely into Frank 's deep resentment as a worker of Polish extraction gets the promotion that should have been his . |
| 6 | The bright gets brighter and the dark gets darker : contrast is enhanced . |
| 7 | The Scottish Baroque Ensemble gets 11 per cent less at £100,000 . |
| 8 | Once the gila monster gets its teeth into its prey it will not let go . |
| 9 | ‘ We get attacked by a monster , the monster gets zapped by a flying saucer and now you fancy a chat with God Almighty . |
| 10 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 11 | The other schools have to share little or nothing while the city technology college gets the lot — and it is public money . |
| 12 | Lynsey gets dream call for Ireland |
| 13 | " Murder gets priority . |
| 14 | Murder gets priority . " |
| 15 | The problem becomes worse as the dictionary gets larger . |
| 16 | As we saw in Chapter 4 the stress concentration at the tip of a crack is about : Now in many materials , R , the tip radius of the crack , remains constant whatever the crack length , so that as the crack gets longer , the stress concentration gets worse . |
| 17 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |
| 18 | In return for holding the party , the agent gets a fee or commission ( a percentage of the price ) on goods sold . |
| 19 | He accepts voluntary inactivity and as a result gets fat . |
| 20 | And one other thing : when I take my three-year-old daughter out , the child seat gets pushed sideways by the back-seat cushion , so I have to straighten it by putting a book under it . ’ |
| 21 | The cell gets used to damming the flood of drug-induced noise in order to be able to deal with the faint whispers of reality that float on top of it . |
| 22 | The only change introduced was the criteria of which side gets the put-in after a stoppage . |
| 23 | Its own momentum keeps it going until one side gets completely flattened . |
| 24 | The right side gets busy too soon and turns from the top of the backswing . |
| 25 | One side gets a little better because the other side has . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not every week a side gets to meet the reigning world champions and I would have thought Andy Roxburgh would have got more support from his clubs . |
| 27 | Then he said , quite slowly , ‘ The dame gets nothing . |
| 28 | Rescue deal gets you home |
| 29 | The little beggar gets about does n't he ? |
| 30 | Philippines volcano gets blame for blowing away summer |