Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] gain [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hence in the 1990s the user may not gain freedom of interaction with spatial data but become a captive of a particular design and control purpose .
2 When a player receives the ball outside his 22-metre line and runs behind the 22 to kick for touch , he may not gain ground from the kick .
3 The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances .
4 In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office .
5 surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age .
6 The members of the commission could not gain entry to north Korea and could not observe the nature of elections there .
7 Parties polling less than 4 per cent of the vote would not gain representation through the county lists .
8 Alfie Kane , BT 's director of network operations , said : ‘ Crippling the 999 phone service in this way may sooner or later lead to the death of innocent people who can not gain access to emergency services , and it is in everyone 's interest that these people are caught . ’
9 But there are the keys , without which the adventurers can not gain entrance to vital areas of the Castle .
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