Example sentences of "[adv] obtain [art] " in BNC.

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1 The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity .
2 While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate .
3 3 ) for the elastic moduli involved and so to obtain the time-dependent behaviour of the composite .
4 When one is selling , one 's duty is basically to obtain the money agreed , and to relieve one 's client of any obligations relating to the property sold , and the mortgage redeemed .
5 If you are lucky enough to obtain a Sear 's catalogue , or one offered by any number of American suppliers , you can give your card number and order what is required on the order form usually enclosed .
6 He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole .
7 He was also astute enough to obtain a twenty-one year lease from Oxford University for their printing privilege .
8 In contrast , those lucky enough to obtain a place in the East India Company 's own service could anticipate a reasonable career without the necessity of further patronage , even though , without question , a servant of the Company whose career was watched by a great man would rise more rapidly .
9 Later I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of his Impressionist Painting in Oils , a , small handbook published by The Artists ' Publishing Co .
10 However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion .
11 Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN .
12 During the mill 's restoration , David Verey , with the co-operation of Lord Bathurst , was fortunate enough to obtain the working parts from a mill at North Cerney , these being fitted to the restored building .
13 He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet .
14 The difficulty with a single-tier system is to arrive at areas large enough to obtain the benefits of unifying the provision of services requiring an extensive area for their efficient operation , yet small enough to form a have for local democratic involvement .
15 The notes of guidance to the Code stress that the purpose of any interview is not necessarily to obtain an admission but to obtain from the suspect his explanation of the facts .
16 As an alternative , fuller and more flexible manual exposure control is provided on some machines in the form of a thumbwheel or pair of ± toggle switches which enable you to control the amount of increase or decrease in the exposure and so obtain the best possible picture .
17 In the same way we may find the numbers of motions of other symmetry species , and so obtain the reduced representation :
18 Thereafter we eagerly obtained the precious four novels of the canon and she became our favourite writer .
19 He was a scholar at both the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1903–7 ) , and Lincoln College , Oxford ( 1907–11 ) , although he only obtained a second class in modern history ( 1911 ) .
20 For this purpose , a plasmid containing both promoters was relaxed with topoisomerase I in the presence of increasing amounts of ethidium bromide , so obtaining a number of plasmid preparations with a superhelical density ranging from 0 ( relaxed plasmid ) to -0.071 ( fully supercoiled , see methods ) .
21 By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time .
22 Moreover , an investor would only obtain a deduction in respect of premiums if it is a financial institution holding its interest as trading stock .
23 The seller can only obtain a limited profit margin on the goods or services that he supplies , while the economic loss suffered by the buyer for his failure to perform may be unknown to the seller , not easily forecast , and far greater than the profit margin the seller enj oys on the transaction .
24 As long as these fears persist , Mr Horn could only obtain the diminution , rather than a solution , to the problem of the Hungarian minority in Romania .
25 This is an excellent way of learning but you can only obtain the material for the questions by listening .
26 The nominated approver may only obtain the listings after the package has been submitted for approval .
27 If you are the Approver of the package you may only obtain the listings after the package has been submitted for approval .
28 Notice that the error v t in equation ( 3.7 ) can be interpreted as a ‘ measurement error ’ in the variable Y. We are trying to measure expectations , but can only obtain an indicator which is the true variable plus a random measurement error .
29 The trial judge sensibly obtained the agreement of counsel for the defendants to the case proceeding on the basis of defined issues .
30 By the end of the year Husayn had only obtained a fraction of the funding he sought .
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