Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , then , you 're going to get extra pay for it . ’ |
| 2 | Every now and again you 're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while . |
| 3 | ‘ There are still some going and you 're bound to get preferential treatment of some sort . ’ |
| 4 | There will always be books which are worth launching with a party because you are going to get wide coverage , but the half-page ad in Cosmo on your own is n't worth half as much as an advertorial that is tied in with a bookshop group . |
| 5 | It becomes so expensive erm and if we are going to get new facilities erm we ca n't just keep upgrading what we 've got now , we have to build new . |
| 6 | ‘ If we are going to get reliable evidence from children and make our own evaluation of what they are saying then it is absolutely essential the stories are not contaminated by those who are being accused with the responsibility for harm or neglect . ’ |
| 7 | Coercion had to be used to get local farmers to undertake these ( technically dubious ) measures . |
| 8 | It also notes that applications will have to be recompiled to get full benefit from the chip . |
| 9 | No-one could be spared to get fresh cots , so these men from farthest Arran and the Rhondda Valley sat up for the rest of the night with a brown baby under each arm . |
| 10 | Mr Hamer said existing slaughterhouses were struggling to get sufficient lambs to keep existing plant operating at full capacity and that the Fortex development would be a case of job re-allocation rather than job creation . |
| 11 | It was clear that the department would need to move with the times if its pupils were to continue to get good results , and , encouraged by her new Head of Department , Joanne found herself entrusted with the management of a curriculum innovation for the intake year . |
| 12 | Attempts are now being made to get protected status for the building . |
| 13 | Back at hospital we were beginning to get civilian casualties , as well as soldiers from Dunkirk . |
| 14 | But now they are closing them we 've got so many good teachers out of work where ten years ago we were fighting to get good teachers and smaller classes but now you see , we 've got smaller classes |
| 15 | ‘ It got legal counsel , so we were forced to get legal representation on our side , ’ Mr Robinson pointed out . |
| 16 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 17 | Delegates in Jakarta were urged to get full value out of every penny spent , especially in the current economic climate . |
| 18 | We are trying to get Salvadorean women to start asking questions about the role society has traditionally assigned then , . |
| 19 | A good stance and plenty of wind is needed to get sufficient speed and then the footsteering principle is used throughout the turn with little help from the sail . |
| 20 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 21 | Well in effect it says that how that it 's now the Party is sanctionalizing absolute egalitarianism , the aim that landlords , K M T officers , everyone 's going to get equal distribution of land . |
| 22 | Brett howls ‘ He 's my insatiable one ’ like a man who 's going to get wicked pleasure from baffling passing milkmen , and it 's all rather lurid and glamorous and hilarious and marginally affected and hugely , wildly effective . |
| 23 | And with a Briton involved , the marathon two month battle is set to get massive television coverage . |
| 24 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 25 | He is determined to get authoritative results , and demands that his associates be similarly single-minded . |
| 26 | It is rewarding to get positive feedback and comments from these people who find the sales centre a pleasant place to visit . |
| 27 | Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods . |
| 28 | By then , however , Norway , with the weakest and least industrialised economy of the three major states , was beginning to get cold feet and insisted upon appending a minority report saying that it could not , given its current economic situation , contemplate joining a customs union . |
| 29 | When Maurice was beginning to get restless Wycliffe said : ‘ Have you ever been over Alfred 's rooms above the shop ? ’ |
| 30 | I was starting to get triple vision and wondering how you did that with only two eyes . |