Example sentences of "[be] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Not necessarily Brussels but Belgium we 're got a joint venture company and we are sending our expertise to help them sort out the I think it 's the erm the Flanders region anyway Brussels . |
2 | I think they 're getting a second-rate education . |
3 | Because of the kind of job they 're doing or the fact that they 're getting a wee bit more pay ? |
4 | Well that 's not so bad if you 're getting a wee bit of help with her but er she 's a |
5 | You 're getting a new |
6 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
7 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
8 | No wonder you 're getting a buzzing in your ears there 's a big lump of concrete in there . |
9 | It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors . |
10 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
11 | This is both central management costs and those direct support costs within the divisions , and within the services , that is recharged over provisions of service , so that you 're getting a true cost , in terms of your costs of running the elderly services , the children and family services , so they include both directly man management costs . |
12 | Well they 're getting a true language on this , I tell you ! |
13 | Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . |
14 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
15 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
16 | Yeah , well some of it you 're getting a little bit cheaper |
17 | Ah , now we 're getting a little bit toward the meat here . |
18 | ‘ You 're getting a proper old woman , John , seeing danger where there is none . |
19 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
20 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
21 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
22 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
23 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
24 | Schoolchildren have been getting a helping hand with their nature studies — from a world famous expert . |
25 | I mean , America are getting a private cup for here . |
26 | As the report produced last week by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made clear , patients are getting a first-rate service from NHS hospitals and ever-improving treatment from the hospitals . |
27 | ‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said . |
28 | Falling interest rates make it even more important for investors to check that they are getting a reasonable return from their funds . |
29 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
30 | The Prime Minister has already shown his sensitivity to a feeling that individuals are getting a poor service from the public sector , hence the Citizen 's Charter . |