Example sentences of "[art] [noun] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The multiplicity of levels , the over-elaboration of consultative machinery , the inability to get decision-making completed nearer the point of delivery of services and what some describe as unacceptably wasteful use of manpower resources were recurrent themes in most of the areas where we worked . |
| 2 | Nenna thought , I must take the opportunity to get things settled for me , even if it 's only by chance , like throwing straws into the current . |
| 3 | Getting him to hospital is something I dread you would n't believe the struggle to get people to understand how bad it is — it 's usually building up for weeks but until he 's practically killed himself or someone else , no one wants to know . |
| 4 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 5 | Eubank is also asking for £1m to fight Benn once more but admitted : ‘ I would even take it if it meant that the winner got Pounds 1m and the loser only half as much — the fight is that important to me . ’ |
| 6 | Is the taxpayer getting value for money ? |
| 7 | It should be emphasised again that this last situation will occur only very seldom , because usually by the time the buyer gets possession of the goods risk will have passed to him and , if the goods perish after risk has passed to the buyer , that will not frustrate the contract . |
| 8 | The Brute Gets Life ( Daily Mirror 26.7.85 ) |
| 9 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 10 | The idea is that it 's a lot quicker for the processor to get information from RAM than from the hard disk . |
| 11 | A government with the people and the policies to get Britain working again and to achieve sustained recovery — strength with staying power . |
| 12 | The user gets access to everything through the control desk applications application , programmers get a swish Windows-based Developers Workstation and executives get a new Decision Support/Executive Information System . |
| 13 | The user gets access to everything through the control desk applications application , programmers get a swish Windows-based Developers Workstation and executives get a new Decision Support/Executive Information System . |
| 14 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 15 | If the authorities get hold of me , it wo n't matter what I say — I 'll be returned , and then I 'll be lost . ’ |
| 16 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 17 | The Master of the Rolls got £310 per annum in the 1530s , £1,300 by the end of the century , £1,600 in the 1630s . |
| 18 | The clients get satisfaction from participation ( or , perhaps , participate as a result of their satisfaction ) , take part in a learning process which enriches them , and identify with a process in which they themselves are involved . |
| 19 | How will the clients get Access ? |
| 20 | He had n't enough time to return to the dormitory to get help . |
| 21 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 22 | Some say in the States got things moving first , others credit in Durham . |
| 23 | Following the failure of the attempt to get Edinburgh to grant medical degrees to women , she moved to London and qualified at the new Medical College for Women in 1873 , but practised only briefly . |
| 24 | More successful was the attempt to get Leapor into print . |
| 25 | What protest did the Government make to the Dublin authorities about the attempt to get Dr. James McDaid into such a key position ? |
| 26 | Bank Assistants , ask not what the IBOA can do for you but what can you do for the IBOA to get justice for your claim . |
| 27 | Have they got , have the breadcrumbs got herbs in ? |
| 28 | You do n't have to be on the fast-track to get job satisfaction . |
| 29 | If the kids get hold of it he 's finished . |
| 30 | Taxpayers ' priorities were for the Revenue to get things right first time , and for problems , where they arise , to be resolved quickly . |