Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets .
2 It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law .
3 There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft .
4 In the United Kingdom it is not possible to get comparative estimates for individuals , but in England and Wales in 1984 , 23% of non-psychiatric beds were occupied by people who died before discharge ( G Bevan , unpublished observations ) .
5 Because they 're most likely to get social support if anybody 's going get anything .
6 It ai n't always easy to get economic forecasts right .
7 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 .
8 If you have recently arrived in this country special rules apply and it is even more important to get good advice before claiming benefits .
9 In short , an awful lot , since this is an information-packed service that is potentially of great use to us all , particularly at a time when it seems to be getting more and more difficult to get hard facts out of other parts of the aviation information system .
10 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 .
11 Finally , in contrast to the weekly availability of pre-1991 BARB , it is now possible to get top-line viewing data overnight .
12 The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’
13 However it is n't easy to get reliable information on what to give , and when .
14 This makes it quite difficult to get accurate figures about school-age mothers .
15 Day continues : ‘ Very few outlets would warrant more than one product , and that is usually a lager , so ale brands find it quite difficult to get in-trade distribution . ’
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 It is all too easy to get foreign bodies into the pipe , which will wreak havoc with pumps and valves at a later date . , .
18 Legal sources say a member of the public facing similar charges would be very lucky to get legal aid for one junior barrister .
19 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 .
20 But it is very important to get medical help in the early stages .
21 We were never able to er we were never able to get young miners er in these in the very early days immediately after nineteen twenty six onwards , to er to er to be associated with the er Young Communist League .
22 And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it .
23 The solid state seemed more complicated ; and because of the problems of purity , which had plagued Crookes in his work on lanthanum and its congeners , it was very difficult to get consistent results with interesting elements like selenium .
24 It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’
25 It is very difficult to get essential oil from the rose , it has to be done by what they call extraction .
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