Example sentences of "[adj] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 2 | It is enough to mount a convincing argument , in this instance by someone who is prepared to get dirty hands for her convictions ; which is not to say that she must convince everyone . |
| 3 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 4 | ‘ Their warehouses hare full of unsaleable stock , so it 's only too easy to get cheap books ; and a member of the public does n't know the difference between a previous edition of , say , the Oxford Companion to English Literature selling for £5 and the new edition selling for £25 — especially since the new edition is n't always better . ’ |
| 5 | It ai n't always easy to get economic forecasts right . |
| 6 | However it is n't easy to get reliable information on what to give , and when . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to get foreign bodies into the pipe , which will wreak havoc with pumps and valves at a later date . , . |
| 8 | 64k mode is not covered in the manual at all , unfortunately , and even after experimentation — loading the supplied VGA-BIOS program , which improved things a little — it proved impossible to get correct colour values onscreen . |
| 9 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 10 | It claims it is impossible to get maximum returns for timber when trying to meet other objectives . |
| 11 | It is impossible to get sensible statistics from it . |
| 12 | It proved impossible to get British Telecom round to fix the phone until Thursday afternoon . |
| 13 | It is impossible to get fresh oil two months after the event , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Legal sources say a member of the public facing similar charges would be very lucky to get legal aid for one junior barrister . |
| 15 | Her mother had suffered a rare disorder which causes parents to make their children ill to get medical attention . |
| 16 | I think it is fair to say that in practical terms you are likely to get substantial life out of the tool before the original battery is spent , perhaps several years . |
| 17 | None of these categories of patient so far are likely to get private insurance cover . |
| 18 | Because they 're most likely to get social support if anybody 's going get anything . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend clearly knows far more about the Bill than does the Secretary of State , I am far more likely to get sensible answers out of him . |
| 20 | Editors always assume that photographs from PR sources can be used free of charge , and any PR outfit which tries to charge for pictures is likely to get short shrift . |
| 21 | A call for opposition party pacts to put up single candidates against Conservative MPs and seek the ‘ total defeat ’ of the Tories as the only way to ensure a Scottish parliament is also likely to get short shrift from the leadership . |
| 22 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 23 | Hacking and the BEA engineers were , Smith felt , reluctant to press hard to get additional boiler manufacturing capacity . |
| 24 | Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets . |
| 25 | The wandering poor got short shrift — a burial is recorded in the Combsburgh register of an unknown man the neighbouring overseers had refused to receive when dying of cold . |
| 26 | Poor to get extra help with VAT costs Major forced to step in over fuel bill row |
| 27 | ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's good to get different guitar sounds , ’ he insists . |
| 29 | For example , it might be very useful to get verbal agreement , in principle , from the head of computing studies for the release of a microcomputer for the duration of the project . |
| 30 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |