Example sentences of "that get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that got a majority . |
| 2 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 3 | No longer did MPs defer to the Speaker , grant courtesy titles or bow when they left ; these days it was the loudest voice that got a hearing . |
| 4 | Yeah , well we 'll take erm Michael gave us say erm a , an assembly sheet did n't he and we just read from that , and that got a lot of interest from that . |
| 5 | I appeared on the Front Bench in the Committee Sitting in which the hon. Gentleman referred and received an assurance from the Minister that getting a dispensation would not be a problem . |
| 6 | yeah , that 's the bone , it takes a lot of skill that getting a bit |
| 7 | Credit Data have suggested that getting a Certificate or Satisfaction should become mandatory . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 9 | I have yet to see one jot of hard evidence that getting a client drunk increases the likelihood of a successful negotiation . |
| 10 | Very often it is this rod that gets a bite . |
| 11 | I make a point of avoiding anything that gets a Rodney nomination . |
| 12 | So where does that leave a woman that gets a two- , three- , or four-year sentence ? |
| 13 | ‘ We had enough chances to be in the game , ’ claimed Bristol boss Denis Smith , ‘ but any team that gets a corner against us is likely to score . ’ |