Example sentences of "[that] gets [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's not a word that gets much use now . |
| 2 | You know , with every incident that gets publicised , it weakens their position even more . |
| 3 | True , the business about the dancer in the Thames sounded a bit too melodramatic — the kind of story that gets embroidered over the years — and probably started out just as an unfortunate coincidence . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are offered cheap fireworks , remember it could be your child that gets injured by them . ’ |
| 5 | In terms of people mixing , it 's a party that at best emulsifies rather than combines ; there 's a hostility between some of the Highland lads ( clean-shaven , short-haired ) and the travellers ( the opposite ) that gets worse as everybody gets more drunk . |
| 6 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
| 7 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 8 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
| 9 | Well because there is er an industrial bias , erm what industrial bias means is that gets subsidized because it 's subsidized they can pay higher wages er erm so it 's not just the government jobs that are well paid it 's the industrial jobs . |
| 10 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 11 | It 's completely addictive I think an anybody that gets involved in the airline business will say the same . |
| 12 | I do n't like everyone , but I do love them , although some days that gets altered 'cos you meet some wankers . ’ |
| 13 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
| 14 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
| 15 | That 's why we 've produced a database with development tools that gets new systems up and running in no time . |
| 16 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 17 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
| 18 | And I said oh it 's so and so that gets all the profit . |
| 19 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 20 | One software category that gets good attention from shareware authors is speciality databases . |
| 21 | That 's the minimum amount of memory that gets used . |
| 22 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |
| 23 | The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go ? |
| 24 | It 's her that gets unstuck if she does n't use it . |