Example sentences of "to get a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a short stroll , the path to Loch Eilde Mor can be climbed for a mile to get a perfect full-length view of Loch Leven . |
| 2 | In this way , you could hope to get a complete unified theory , one that would predict everything in the universe . |
| 3 | Five years ago the 41-year-old MP for Mossley Hill , Merseyside , resigned the Liberal Whip in a vain battle to get a private anti-abortion Bill through the Commons . |
| 4 | Clearly an innovating minister has to find ways to get a vast operational organization to change its ways . |
| 5 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 6 | Now you 've got the chance to go you 'll have to get a decent sized boat now . |
| 7 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 8 | TO get a brilliant hidden options screen on Thunderforce III on the Mega Drive , just press A and Start on the title screen . |
| 9 | To begin with , we were n't looking to trick anyone — the job was perfectly straightforward — and we wanted to get a good geographic spread to avoid any bias towards the London area which has the lion 's share of the current bureau . |
| 10 | To get a good working sketch in colour would be quite an achievement and a good illustration of the potential of the Kurecolor KC-1100 Markers . |
| 11 | All they want to know is : am I going to get a good bottom turn ? ’ |
| 12 | It is difficult to get a good clear contrast with chalk and an overhead projector , or white board with thick black felt pens for writing , can give better contrast . |
| 13 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 14 | The purpose of your journey was twofold — either to get a good permanent appointment , or , if this should fail , to go off to some big city where large sums of money can be earned . |
| 15 | A group of parents has won a battle to get a new primary school at Corse in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | The recent reorganization of the party had been carried out because " they wanted to get a real popular element in the direction of the party , but no attempt should be made to interfere autocratically from the H.Q. to the constituencies . |
| 17 | Hugh Helps has managed to get a only small proportion of his linseed crop in … what he 's got is soaked through and he 's had to hire in expensive drying equipment . |
| 18 | Maybe have to get a fitted fitted unit down the side . |
| 19 | Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 've no qualifications I 'm not going to get a high paid job , so I wo n't be able to pay for childcare . |
| 21 | In France , a working group at AFUU — L'Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix et des Systemes Ouverts — has been beavering away doing some research on how it might be possible to get a single graphical user interface ( GUI ) standard going . |
| 22 | Rest the palm of your hand on strings 5 and 6 at the bridge to get a damped bass line with the thumb . |
| 23 | A former army captain , Jane Turpin , used a fake CV to get a top secretarial job at Europarks where she photocopied documents and sent regular reports about the company and its personnel to Layton via Hewitt . |
| 24 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 25 | He is now certain to get a full international debut in Sierra Leone 's African Nations Cup match against Togo on January 9 . |
| 26 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 27 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 28 | Women who have only worked for part of their adult lives may not have enough contributions to get a full basic pension on their own record . |
| 29 | We seem to need to get a sufficient daily quota of conscious relaxation and pleasure from our food , and obviously this occurs while the food is in the mouth . |
| 30 | The immediate task was then to get a secure temporary roof across the whole building so that the interior could begin to dry out in the spring . |