Example sentences of "of getting a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major only has a slim 21-strong majority , and with 26 rebels already known as The Unforgiven , he can never be sure of getting a controversial measure through the Commons . |
| 2 | Alcohol is a poor way of getting a long sleep as its diuretic effect wakes you because of a full bladder . |
| 3 | ‘ I had thought of getting a young man , ’ said Edwin , ‘ though perhaps in a way it 's hardly a job for a man . |
| 4 | ‘ The Indians today , ’ remarks Ondegardo , ‘ never think of getting a new garment until the old one is in tatters ’ . |
| 5 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 6 | Is there any chance of getting a new supply of printed cards please ? |
| 7 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 8 | Aggie had mice , Nellie recalled , but the woman could not bear the thought of getting a good mouser . |
| 9 | . But still it was er one way of getting a good meal , everyday . |
| 10 | And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly . |
| 11 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 12 | Futcher said : ‘ Short of getting a double-barrelled gun and blowing off his head , I do n't think he can be stopped . ’ |
| 13 | Transition curves were temporarily eliminated from the pure geometric shapes of the twentieth century : in part , as a reaction to Art Nouveau but also as a means of getting a firm grip upon design . |
| 14 | The difficulty of getting a worthwhile job is one of the greatest barriers to the successful settlement of refugees in Britain . |
| 15 | Compact aims to improve your chances of getting a worthwhile job , when you want one . |
| 16 | In 1534 William Tyldesley advised Lord Lisle that the best means of getting a favourable answer to his requests would be a letter to some of his friends in the Privy Chamber or to the Lord Chamberlain . |
| 17 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 18 | A long while ago I watched Tom Keating on TV painting a ship during which he discussed putting on a varnish and painting in the rigging through the varnish as the only means of getting a nice line . |
| 19 | And unless they do the chances of getting a real home are slim . |
| 20 | ‘ Where it 's weird , though , is the difficulty of getting a real fix on what 's happening in the outside world . |
| 21 | How , Mellor wondered , would the Lib Dems respond to the unlikely scenario of getting a working majority on a 33 per cent poll ? |
| 22 | Well I do n't know , just er , I do n't know really , I do n't want to mind cos he 's been there five years , so if he does get made redundant he 's got a chance of getting a little bit of money , not a lot , but it would help . |
| 23 | The results of the [ 1922 ] General Election have brought forcibly before us the primary importance both of securing the votes of women electors and of getting a large number of women to take part in an electoral campaign . |
| 24 | That way you would be in the UEFA Cup where there is no preliminary round and at least have a chance of getting a lucrative pay-day against a big club . ’ |
| 25 | And I 'd like to ask the panel , what possibilities there are of getting a nationwide campaign listing all the hospitals that 's under threat ? |
| 26 | No I want the green , I want the garden chair , I was thinking of getting a big garden chair and stick it in one of those lean-to |
| 27 | And I had better chances of getting a proper house for myself and my family which was then two daughters and my wife and I . |
| 28 | Dr Keith Hampson , a leading Conservative backbench critic of the scheme , said last night : ‘ The possibility of getting a workable scheme that is not in a shambles by September must be in severe doubt . ’ |
| 29 | A good way of getting a neat mastic seal between bath and basin is to use masking tape , spaced at the right distance , on the bath and the wall . |
| 30 | That is something that we are keen to see , and I am confident of getting a positive response from the executive and the commission shortly . |