Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] get " in BNC.

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1 But it was not so easy to get rid of the cosmological constant .
2 it 's not so important to get it perfect .
3 Even though we 're first to get going we 're not exactly quick to get going .
4 ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine .
5 While these were not banned , they were not always easy to get , partly because state publishers had to use much of their manpower and paper ration churning out millions of volumes of turgid Party-approved prose and the works of Lenin .
6 It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample .
7 It 's not always easy to get a compatible mixture of fish and plants which are geographically sound .
8 It is not always easy to get into the New Zealand landscape .
9 ‘ It 's not always easy to get the jokes .
10 For example , it is not always possible to get moss to thrive , in which case dwarf cover plants can be substituted .
11 Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted .
12 You , no point in us getting that , you 're room 's not really ready to get painted yet .
13 I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’
14 It is not particularly difficult to get rose cuttings to sprout roots , and to suggest that that is all one needs to do to raise new plants of any and all roses is to mislead by disregarding why all the trouble is taken to propagate H.T.s , Floribundas and many more by budding and , less often , by grafting .
15 Unfortunately , we 're not yet able to get a large enough supply of completely CFC-free material , but do hope to be able to in the near future .
16 He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ .
17 I hope it 's not too late to get the following listed in the ‘ What 's On ’ section in the next issue :
18 When I used to say , ‘ Oh yeah ’ , he 'd reply , ‘ Do n't be cheeky , you 're not too old to get a clip round the ear . ’
19 ‘ Come to think of it , ’ said Donleavy , ‘ maybe it 's not too smart to get a US entry stamp in your passport right after this .
20 Since the cells are closed , spindle-shaped tubes , the liquid water inside them is not very easy to get out .
21 Not very easy to get now .
22 ‘ But as I keep trying to tell you , publishing is not that easy to get into — especially at your sort of salary level when you 've no experience . ’
23 Now it 's very easy for all the leaders around the world , not that easy to get them all together , but once they were together , it was very easy for them all to say yes the situation 's dreadful , it 's awful , it 's awful .
24 It ai n't always easy to get economic forecasts right .
25 It is n't always straightforward to get , say , Frenchmen and Germans working together successfully or even people from southern Italy working well with those from the north .
26 I do n't know how that happened , really but , erm you were n't really supposed to get anything without .
27 I heard the motor but I was n't even able to get the number . "
28 Well jobs were were n't particularly hard to get in nineteen thirteen and er well in any case me father worked there and he 'd worked there many years so i it was the normal thing that you usually followed your father like .
29 For some consultants , a waiting list was a badge of status and district health authorities were n't too anxious to get rid of them because they were used by MPs to reinforce claims for more resources .
30 As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time .
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