Example sentences of "[adj] way to get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another way to get a fix on people is to identify their heroes . |
| 2 | The quickest way to get a smack in the chops around here , is to bad mouth Runner in front of Cissy Rowles . ’ |
| 3 | That 's the quickest way to get a name , is n't it ? |
| 4 | Self-build is the cheapest way to get a dream home to your own specification . |
| 5 | Some clients use research surveys mainly as a publicity tool , an easy way to get a newspaper headline , as an insurance company did with a Gallup survey on the cost of raising children . |
| 6 | Maybe what I 'm saying is the only sure-fire , tried and tested way to get a girl 's knickers off in thirty seconds — which , by the way , it is . |
| 7 | Such material is generally impossible to check , and the only way to get a response may be to print or broadcast . |
| 8 | The plaintive cry of the deputy head that ‘ the only way to get a pat on the head around here is to sit under a cow ’ will strike home with staff , children and parents in many primary schools . |
| 9 | Next day it 's the only way to get a ticket . |
| 10 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 11 | The only way to get a score was to hammer it . |
| 12 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |
| 13 | For a murderer in a hurry , and this murderer had been in a hurry , it would have been a tedious and uncertain way to get a light . |
| 14 | The easiest way to get a component " accepted " is to declare that it has no , or only the simplest , association with the rest of the machine . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that 's a novel way to get a man 's heart . |