Example sentences of "[vb pp] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chelmsford 's sixth gold medal was earned by Simon Bown , an unemployed 18-year-old who is widely tipped to get an international vest this Summer throwing the hammer . |
| 2 | The alliance partners honing the final American system — AT&T , General Instrument , Holland 's Philips , France 's Thomson , Zenith , the David Sarnoff Research Centre and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — together represent the kind of commercial strength needed to get a new TV format on the air . |
| 3 | So much more water is needed to get a workable dough . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've had to get an extra teacher , ’ added her sister . |
| 5 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 6 | Lot of people are n't there and they have n't bothered to get a postal vote cos they 're on holiday or whatever you know . |
| 7 | It can therefore be used to get a complete list of Module Names and/or a ‘ Where-Used ’ listing for any module(s) ( which can also be acquired using the DC system ) . |
| 8 | but er , they 've got to get a new mini bus apparently , there in two years , which we new and er because like every thing else , it 's funded by the school not the authorities |
| 9 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 10 | the difficulty is , that an otherwise nice young man cuased these deaths and was bound to get a substantial sentence . |
| 11 | This , thanks to the trainers and N.D.O. , is all in the pipeline , with Taster Days and leaflets distributed to get a new training course off to a good start in Cambridge , this September . |
| 12 | A SCULPTURE from the National Garden Festival is set to get a permanent home in a Durham City park . |
| 13 | ‘ We had a good run in losing only one of our previous eight games and had hoped to get a good result at Oldham . ’ |
| 14 | If Telecom really wanted to get a cost-effective solution to a 60,000 square foot head office requirement , it could simply have bought Montrose House on Adelaide Road two years earlier than it bought the Ballsbridge site . |
| 15 | From Dr Armand Pastor GP Sir , I have started to get an extraordinary amount of patients with minor and sometimes major physical injuries caused by supermarket trolleys - pulled muscles , dislocated cartilages , broken fingers and limbs , ruptured yoghurt , etc . |
| 16 | With the awards season upon them , J Walter Thompson were being showered with strange-looking trophies in perspex and metal alloy , and were forced to get a little man in to build them more shelves . |
| 17 | With nearly half the votes counted , it was clear the outgoing four-party coalition was going to be hard put to get a working majority in the Rome parliament . |
| 18 | Moodie said afterwards : ‘ I was determined to get a good start which would take me clear of the pack . |
| 19 | There is plenty of courage in this side and we are determined to get a good result in France ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here . |
| 21 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |
| 22 | Gilbert Basset died in 1241 , and Philippa Basset somehow managed to get a quick divorce from Richard by autumn of the next year . |
| 23 | The investment required to get a small share of a market may not be very large ( in some markets ) but a great deal more investment is then required to increase this market share to the point where it is large enough to support the operation . |
| 24 | Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running . |
| 25 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 26 | But Wycombe almost snatched a dramatic , last-gasp equaliser when Simon Hutchinson 's cross flew across the face of the goal and Keith Scott fractionally failed to get a decisive touch . |
| 27 | Eight Kent families have failed to get a High Court order forcing two health authorities to hold an independent review of complaints about consultant paediatrician Heather Richardson . |
| 28 | The regions will decide whether the strategy Mr Yeltsin has chosen to get a new constitution adopted will succeed or fail . |