Example sentences of "[conj] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any purchaser is already on notice that to get a good receipt he will have to pay purchase money to two trustees or a trust corporation ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 2 | No amount of insisting that black fashion , black history and black speech are as valid as white alters the fact that to get a decent job means to work where being able to ‘ act white ’ pays . |
| 3 | It is now believed that to get a true account of unemployment the current official figures should be multiplied by 1.5 . |
| 4 | It 's easier to extract sense out of a fruitfly than to get a civil word out of Rickie . |
| 5 | And if there is reason to deviate from historical practice , it is important to consult this book to get a rational perspective and to get a systematic approach into what one is doing . |
| 6 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 7 | Most women retiring in 1987/88 will have ‘ working lives ’ of 39 years , and to get a full pension they must have a contribution record for 35 years . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought she might give us a mention but to get a personal donation like this is more than we could ever have hoped for . ’ |
| 9 | And I 'd like to think that you now start to think , not in terms of , in terms of other hospitals , but to get a coordinated campaign throughout the country on this particular issue . |
| 10 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 11 | But to get a diminished interval you 've got to remember that if you can have a minor interval , you 've got to go one semitone less than that minor interval . |
| 12 | However , in the words of the track 's marketing manager , George Steele , replacing this level of prize-money has been ‘ a nightmare in the current economic climate , though to get a Scottish-based company coming to our aid is marvellous ’ . |