Example sentences of "[noun] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | They 'll take no profit from this deal to get Russian children back to school . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | ‘ Cat got yer' tongue ? ’ |
| 40 | The question of introducing nitrate protection zones got serious consideration only through the Nitrate Coordination Group in 1987 . |
| 41 | ‘ Joy got fine cock . |
| 42 | ( It had been the practice for the climber to go to the top and give the fox a spin , but in 1984 the committee got cold feet when it found they might not be fully insured for the climber and a separate insurance would cost too much . |
| 43 | Courtauld gets new prints & drawings study room |
| 44 | Denmark gets special opt-outs on a single currency and a common defence policy . |
| 45 | The social services spend £18 million more than SSA partly because everybody in Derbyshire gets free home helps whether they are in financial need or not . |
| 46 | Darlington boy gets new hockey challenge |
| 47 | A single parent living with her parents gets supplementary benefit of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 48 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 49 | Mention was made by some of a belief that Blacks get custodial sentences more often . |
| 50 | The supermarkets get paid cash by the customer a few days after the goods arrive in their shops , while they pay their suppliers between one and two months after delivery . |
| 51 | Playground plan gets go-ahead A HOLIDAY playground for children in an East Cleveland village has received the blessing of Langbaurgh councillors . |
| 52 | Refugees get cold shoulder |
| 53 | Hillhouse lab gets prestigious NAMAS stamp of approval |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The avoidance of the third scenario may require the use of a consortium of microorganisms to get complete mineralisation of the toxic waste . |
| 58 | But perhaps more importantly , do any companies get real value from the large sums they spend trying to persuade a gullible or not so gullible public that they are modern and go-ahead — or , even more to the point , how many logos that do not contain the company name ( like BP or ICI ) are recognised unprompted by the average person ? |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Early today the Government was facing accusations of fighting a dirty and unethical campaign to get Tory MPs to vote for Mr Major . |