Example sentences of "[noun sg] to get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a feature is clearly a waste of time if you are a reasonably expert photographer ( and there is no bar code reader input on the professional EOS models ) , but it helps the non-expert to get good results . |
| 2 | I simply remove myself , calmly , and with a dignity that must be noticed even by those who would have to look the word up in a dictionary to get some faint glimmer of an idea of what the concept actually means . |
| 3 | One of the fundamental principles behind the concept was that short landing strips for unladen aircraft were more readily found than sites for runways maybe a mile in length needed for a fully laden bomber to get airborne . |
| 4 | Recent protests by disillusioned supporters calling for the dismissal of player-boss John Carroll have prompted the club to get both sides together to discuss the club 's situation . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't have to be a musician to get involved with MAS , ’ chairman Big John of GOODBYE MR MACKENZIE told Thrills . |
| 6 | Using a fast film such as 1000ASA , one can use the aquarium lights supplemented by natural light to get reasonable photographs without using flash . |
| 7 | If I was Peter Reid , I would be screaming blue murder to get this player . ’ |
| 8 | They are travelling to play Oulton in a friendly this Saturday to get acclimatised and each player has been given a personal training programme to get ready for three games in three days . |
| 9 | To fit a cylinder thermostat to a pre-insulated cylinder , cut away the insulation to get metal-to-metal contact |
| 10 | It may seem odd to think of battering as an attempt to get close . |
| 11 | They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system . |
| 12 | His attempt to get legal redress in a particularly flagrant case ( in which the Christmas Carol was pirated virtually wholesale ) proved totally frustrating . |
| 13 | ‘ It was an attempt to get bigger ratings but I said Boon would have to stay with ordinary social issues or I was out . ’ |
| 14 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |
| 15 | In 498 there was an attempt to get free , the Ionian revolt , to which Athens and Eretria sent aid . |
| 16 | It 's a last , last ditch attempt to get some money out of it , is it ? |
| 17 | I have undertaken missions with the hon. Members for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) , for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) and for South Down ( Mr. McGrady ) in an attempt to get more business and development in their areas . |
| 18 | The tree 's branches clutched at him out of the darkness and he floundered up in an attempt to get clear of them . |
| 19 | After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected . |
| 20 | My mother 's Spontaneous memories are more amenable : she can remember the trivial in a way I find exciting : ‘ The ginger-haired Dent twins running about naked in the back-alley to get dry after their bath . ’ |
| 21 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 22 | They come out in force to get mucky at this year 's Reading Festival , but would they subscribe to Britain 's most derided youth cult : the soft crusties ? |
| 23 | So Strachan in mid-tour signed up for the East Coast Bays club and the North Harbour seniors in a bid to get consistent first class play . |
| 24 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 25 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 26 | Structured or non-structured , such activities demand time and thought and imagination and knowledge and research to get ready : at any age or ability level . |
| 27 | But , for many people all that will ever be needed is a program which provides word processing with the capability to get decent quality print out of a page printer . |
| 28 | Sharpe used only speed to get past players … that s why you do nt see him go past players much anymore … cos he ca nt run fast enough . |
| 29 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 30 | What was very difficult to prove — but was much suspected , especially in the late 1940s , at the time of the first Press Commission — was that advertisers used their leverage to get favourable coverage and dampen criticism . |