Example sentences of "[noun pl] get [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both policies got a big hand . |
| 2 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 3 | The new arrangements were supposed to ensure that true fans got a fair chance , but a Sunderland Supporters Association spokeswoman said yesterday that was not the case . |
| 4 | TWO hundred kids got a special preview of ‘ West Side Story ’ on Tuesday night , thanks to Opera Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 6 | LE PRIZE : winners get a Futuristic weekend at the European Park of Moving Image |
| 7 | ‘ The Tories say that ‘ competition ’ ensures that shoppers get a fair deal . |
| 8 | If you do it through A B S A , the government will give another ten thousand pounds so of course for the orchestra or the institution whether it 's opera , ballet , concert or whatever is , but it must be arts gets the extra money so of course that in a sense is very enabling . |
| 9 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 10 | In fact , it could be said that the only women these days who sport one single fragrance , all the time , are those famous glamour-pusses — Joan Collins , Elizabeth Taylor , Paloma Picasso , and so on — who are paid several millions of dollars a year to endorse a ‘ signature ’ scent , on condition they never allow gossipy fellow lunchers in smart restaurants to get an illicit whiff of ‘ Chanel No 5 ’ as they swan by . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't want kids to get the wrong idea from that song . |
| 12 | Grieving parents get the wrong body to cuddle . |
| 13 | All Vento models get a colour-coded grille and re-designed wheels . |
| 14 | The Housing Corporation is particularly anxious to ensure that the smaller and medium-sized housing associations get an adequate share of the growing resources provided by the Housing Corporation so that the more traditional associations can continue to provide the new homes and local management to which my hon. Friend paid tribute . |
| 15 | ‘ Hunterston pulled out all the stops to get the spare transformer readied for shipment , a section of the fence was removed to give easy access for the low-loader , and the transformer was moved to the docks at Ardrossan and loaded on to the Fisher . |
| 16 | Hence RMC spent almost £1m with Waterers to get the desired effect at its headquarters at Thorpe Park and Esso 's Leatherhead headquarters was adorned with lavish landscaping . |
| 17 | At first you may need several trials to get the right amount of heating from the bulb . |
| 18 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 19 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 20 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 21 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 22 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 23 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 24 | ‘ After school activities get a tremendous response . |
| 25 | Shareholders get a final dividend of 10.25p against 9.55p last time , making a total of 16.20p ( 15.10p ) a jump of 7.3pc . |
| 26 | That sounds fine but in practice it means that people from black and ethnic groups get a raw deal because their particular problems are seldom acknowledged . |
| 27 | Families get a good deal with Extrasure which offers every insured person free cover for a child aged 11 or under , and with ABTA 's special policy rates of £33.50 ( £79 ) for a couple and all dependent children under 16 . |
| 28 | A NEW independent tribunal to ensure children needing special educational provisions get a fair deal is to be set up in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | The user gets access to everything through the control desk applications application , programmers get a swish Windows-based Developers Workstation and executives get a new Decision Support/Executive Information System . |
| 30 | The user gets access to everything through the control desk applications application , programmers get a swish Windows-based Developers Workstation and executives get a new Decision Support/Executive Information System . |