Example sentences of "for getting " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 2 | They are useful for getting into awkward spaces , avoiding damage to the work around them . |
| 3 | Instead , the debate here focused on the bonuses Charlton 's players will receive for getting to Italy ( £25,000 per man ) and the Sports Minister 's public criticism of Irish television for their decision not to screen the other tie in Group Six , between Hungary and Spain . |
| 4 | First things first : schools still need a speedy mechanism for getting rid of those guilty of gross misconduct , negligence and incompetence . |
| 5 | We have got to work towards a situation where burning is no longer the routine disposal method for getting rid of surplus straw . ’ |
| 6 | In many cases , one suspects that dealers are simply jealous of Gagosian for getting Saatchi 's business , but in others there do seem to be justifiable grievances . |
| 7 | Surely television is the medium for getting to know personalities , but the press is the medium for a detailed understanding of the issues ? |
| 8 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 9 | A final word of praise for organiser Bob Fitzjohn , for getting the match off the ground . |
| 10 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 11 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 12 | The Royal Engineers are responsible , amongst other things , for getting across rivers . |
| 13 | The result in films like Shipyard ( 1934/5 ) , an impressionistic study of the life of a shipbuilding town , or Night Mail ( 1936 ) , a poetic record of the journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow , were films that revealed how much was being missed by the filmmakers who created fabulous fictions behind the walls of the studio — what Grierson described as ‘ the cinema 's capacity for getting around , for observing and selecting from life itself . ’ |
| 14 | Quilted or ostentatiously functional — the Swiss army penknife of the trouser kingdom — with a thousand pockets , clips , keyrings and a thing for getting stuff out of horses hooves all attached to the waistband . |
| 15 | And I do n't believe it provides a strategy for getting to grips with the underlying causes of ill-health . |
| 16 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 17 | Instead he opted for getting his penknife out and fraying the elastic in the waistband . |
| 18 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 19 | For bigger events you may also need someone to look after travel and accommodation , the programme , publicity and , most important , a person responsible for getting the right people to enrol , always the most difficult single task . |
| 20 | Abrams , having mumbled about ‘ the gratitude of the secretary ( of state ) and of the President for getting us out of this jam ’ , was asked by Ibnu again : ‘ But what concrete do we get out of this ? ’ |
| 21 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 22 | What turned the campaign around was playing on another strength : his genuine fondness for getting among the public , even a hostile public . |
| 23 | But although brands may be valuable aids for getting market share , they are not indispensible . |
| 24 | Sandy Lyle had set the fashion for getting home in two from there when he won in 1988 and though Couples did not , like Lyle , make a birdie , he was only a whisker away from it . |
| 25 | French cosmetics group L'Oreal — with even less excuse for getting involved with television — bought a film library but has now written-off £3m owed by La Cinq and has had to cut the celluloid 's value by £48m . |
| 26 | ‘ I use a bottle and a bed pan , thank you very much , thank you very , very much , Mister Bloomin' Corby , for getting me stuck in here when the football season 's started ! ’ |
| 27 | Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? , |
| 28 | Choose one about 600mm ( 2ft ) long with a metal body , and both horizontal and vertical indicators ; then you can use it for getting things plumb too . |
| 29 | ‘ Late for getting in the cart , ’ the man replied sternly . |
| 30 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |