Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun] of [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My large , triangular landing net is stuck net upwards in the mud to the left of the gap in the rushes where it will be handy to get at and easy to catch hold of in the dark .
2 Facts and figures which are relatively easy to obtain in other ( including many African ) countries are extraordinarily hard to get hold of in Nigeria .
3 I have always liked cat fish in general , but the more interesting species of Synodontis have been hard to get hold of in my area .
4 That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this .
5 While many stipulate portfolios of at least £50,000 or £100,000 , some do not specify a minimum .
6 Offsetting that with the Smith Mark , losses and the one-time provision for the Penguin U S Leases , that was all taken care of in nineteen ninety one and the benefit from our fully benefit from our ninety one acquisitions and little bit in ninety two .
7 The BEA were also able to make savings of about 1 per cent of generation costs by centralising the purchase of coal and rationalising its transport , eliminating cross-hauling and sharing facilities such as sea-going colliers .
8 Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending .
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