Example sentences of "to get a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We take the view it is better to get a partly complete story with a whisper of opportunity and get it to one or two key companies quickly so they can get out there , rather than sitting back and waiting for a nicely tailored account of what is going on which , by the time we get it to them , will be history rather than opportunity , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping . |
| 3 | I want us to get a thoroughly good vote in this Euro constituency , by maximizing our effectiveness . |
| 4 | And he played his violin as well so and actually what Nigel had wanted was to get a little choral group so we |
| 5 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm beginning to get a pretty good idea , ’ said Tabitha . |
| 7 | I used to get a pretty good idea of what was to come just from the way they shook hands with a grown-up . |
| 8 | The idea was to get a fairly homogeneous sample , to look at housework attitudes in a group of women with similar backgrounds . |
| 9 | I 'm leaving school soon and I want to get a fairly good report , you know . ’ |
| 10 | I managed to get a fairly good seat , and it was my fortune to sit next to a man who delighted in explaining the nuances of the case to a foreigner . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog . |
| 12 | Thus to get a really good idea of the extent to which taxes ( or subsidies ) alter people 's spending power and welfare , we need to examine the issue of tax incidence in more detail . |
| 13 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 14 | This point is conceded by Jelinek , a leading speech recognition researcher , who admits ‘ To get a really good interface , it may prove necessary to use writing tablets and achieve automatic recognition of hand-produced diacritical marks and possibly of handwriting as well . ’ |
| 15 | To get a more general view of how the Health Service departments treat their Asian women patients , I asked social workers in different parts of London what their experiences had been in dealing with hospitals , Health Visitors and Area Health Authorities . |
| 16 | You can slip two or more needles side by side and most of the time it is preferable to do so in order to get a more definite design effect . |
| 17 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's sedated quite heavily , and the doctor will see her again in the morning to get a more thorough picture of things . |
| 19 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 20 | By asking the women what they liked or disliked about the task in question , and whether their attitude was reversed in any particular circumstances , I was able to get a more complete picture of their experience of each task , and also to learn something about the characteristics these different housework tasks are seen to possess . |
| 21 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 22 | Er , ask a fellow to speak on something that interests him , and you 're sure to get a more interesting speech . |
| 23 | Fourth , and lastly , feminist psychologists try to get a more balanced picture of what established psychological sex differences mean . |
| 24 | It was certainly true that , as far as outside observers were concerned , Scotland was unlikely to get a very good press . |
| 25 | But bear in mind that without an external aerial , you may not be able to get a very good teletext reception . |
| 26 | However , it 's easy to get a very negative self-image and lose your confidence . |
| 27 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |