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 .
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