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getting even

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Since it was getting even hotter, Tom peeled off another layer of clothing.
2. "The floor is dirty!" the shopkeeper reprimanded him. "You haven't even paid for the suit yet, and you're already getting it dirty!"
3. You know what my idiot son's doing? Even now he's graduated from university he spends all his time playing pachinko instead of getting a job.
4. It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
5. Even more importantly, such land sales to service the debt would mean that the company would be getting rid of its main assets just to service debt.
6. Moreover, the premises are unsuitable for modern equipment: the lanes around the platforms are too cramped and make manoeuvres to place goods on the platform more difficult (involving longer procedures than at an installation with a normal configuration), and even impossible in some segments, preventing the operator from getting their lorries onto the platform at the loading bays which would make for better platform management.
7. The Commission appears to suggest that if there are taxes in two separate tax jurisdictions in the same State, even if the formal percentage tax rate is the same, the fact that different exemptions apply or different allowances are given would mean that the companies getting the allowance or exemption would be in receipt of aid if, all other things being equal, they would have paid a higher rate of tax in the other jurisdiction.