Example sentences of "be getting a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think they 're getting a second-rate education . |
| 2 | Because of the kind of job they 're doing or the fact that they 're getting a wee bit more pay ? |
| 3 | Well that 's not so bad if you 're getting a wee bit of help with her but er she 's a |
| 4 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
| 5 | It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors . |
| 6 | This is both central management costs and those direct support costs within the divisions , and within the services , that is recharged over provisions of service , so that you 're getting a true cost , in terms of your costs of running the elderly services , the children and family services , so they include both directly man management costs . |
| 7 | Well they 're getting a true language on this , I tell you ! |
| 8 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 9 | Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . |
| 10 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 11 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , well some of it you 're getting a little bit cheaper |
| 13 | Ah , now we 're getting a little bit toward the meat here . |
| 14 | No , no , they 're not complaining because they 're getting an easy time , er , I mean , I 've got a couple like that as well . |
| 15 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 16 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 17 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 18 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 19 | Schoolchildren have been getting a helping hand with their nature studies — from a world famous expert . |
| 20 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 21 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 22 | I mean , America are getting a private cup for here . |
| 23 | As the report produced last week by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made clear , patients are getting a first-rate service from NHS hospitals and ever-improving treatment from the hospitals . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Falling interest rates make it even more important for investors to check that they are getting a reasonable return from their funds . |
| 26 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister has already shown his sensitivity to a feeling that individuals are getting a poor service from the public sector , hence the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 28 | Investors are getting a real return of 4.5 per cent on their cash . |
| 29 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 30 | Up you get , ooh you 're a big lump now , you are getting a big girl . |