Example sentences of "[noun] be get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst a younger generation of women artists are getting certain recognition , the artists who have laid the foundation for our young contemporaries should not be erased from memory . |
| 2 | He dismissed suggestions opted-out schools were getting privileged treatment . |
| 3 | There were a number of special difficulties in the successful accomplishment of what was very delicate work and , all in all , the collector of aquatint books is getting full value for money , high though the price may be . |
| 4 | But a law review committee later said rape defendants were getting preferential treatment . |
| 5 | He said if a valuer were to get accurate valuations on all the properties in Milton Street it would take more than one day . |
| 6 | 15 years ago Blackburn were getting similar gates to Watford and Oxford . |
| 7 | You 'll probably notice your fish are getting tattered fins , a whitish furry coat over their bodies and the odd sore appearing . |
| 8 | B. One of the problems for the masses of people who live in conurbations is to get sufficient water . |
| 9 | Seve Ballesteros criticised the length of the tour when it was announced in September , but Schofield stated : ‘ Our job is to get competitive opportunities for our members and we are not going to turn down opportunities . |
| 10 | He complained that Burt Lancaster was getting top billing . |
| 11 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 12 | What causes problems is getting sufficient water to flow through it afterwards , so that it gives out enough heat . |
| 13 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 14 | We 'll walk up to Clark 's and Joseph 's to get new batteries for the radio and a few other odds and ends . |
| 15 | People are getting fidgety people are leaving can I just . |
| 16 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 17 | Are you anybody Dor I 've got erm Doris here is is there anybody has n't asked I wan na sort of brig to some conclusion because people are getting restless Doris . |
| 18 | As the perennial overspend on core and emergency services ( used by the patients of fundholders and non-fundholders alike ) leads hospitals to restrict their activities , fundholders ' patients are getting preferential access to elective surgery . |
| 19 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 20 | THE Citizens ' Advice Bureaux today said that not enough people were getting social-security benefits they were entitled to , worsening poverty in the province . |
| 21 | At £12 per table leader , parliamentary democracy is getting good value . |
| 22 | For what finding out the truth means is getting true beliefs for ourselves ; and what telling it means is giving our own true beliefs to other people — often of course ( though as we shall see , by no means always ) by making true statements . |
| 23 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern . |
| 24 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 25 | Society members were to get free treatment of their animals , but would pay for their keep . |
| 26 | With oil and gas exports , the objective is to get foreign currency with which foreign goods can be purchased and the domestic economy 's energy requirements are organised so that they are able to manage on the fuel which is left . |
| 27 | ‘ The most important thing is to get medical aid to the injured man as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | First fruits of February 's OEM agreement under which Data General Corp is to get 88000-based desktops from Omron Corp is the Luna 2001 which is built around Motorola Inc 's latest 88110 RISC CPU and runs the DG/UX operating system . |
| 29 | First fruits of February 's OEM agreement under which Data General Corp is to get 88000-based desktops from Omron Corp is the Luna 2001 , built around Motorola Inc 's latest 88110 RISC CPU and running the DG/UX operating system . |
| 30 | Primary function is to get new business for his company , decide policy , see clients remain happy , and turn in good profits . |