Example sentences of "[not/n't] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye so it 's Sharon 's turn to buy it , can , Elliott can not get cheap stuff from the , where Ian works ? |
| 2 | Women , who predominated in the junior schools , did not get equal pay in principle until 1955 ( or in reality until 1962 ) , despite a vigorous campaign throughout the 1940s , so yet further inequality was built in between groups of teachers . |
| 3 | We all pay the same towards the NHS ; should we not get equal benefits ? |
| 4 | One did not get dirty hands working a Monotype . |
| 5 | We can not get our raw materials in , we can not get unfinished projects out , so please can we push with the dealing of the A twelve so that we can get in and out of the south ? |
| 6 | We have tried different dates , e.g. early July Reunion Weekend/mid September — excuse clashes with holidays ; late October — we can not get overnight accommodation on Campus . |
| 7 | Another northern head , requesting anonymity , voiced his outrage at Labour 's prejudice : ‘ I 've worked in comprehensives for 18 years and I know as well as anyone that you can not get good education for working-class children without quality teachers and adequate resources . |
| 8 | I believe in the end that one of the casualties of taking short cuts and losing integrity is that you will not get good people coming into the business . |
| 9 | Another problem that the Home Office faces is the 3 per cent of listeners who can not get good reception from the networks as they stand at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ A few years back , you could not get young women to be active , ’ said Judy Miller , president of the Los Angeles-based Trusteeship , an organisation of influential women in business and the arts . |
| 11 | But er er going beyond that , I think it would be wise for us to assume that we will not get paid time off for this even if we do attempt to disguise it as something else . |
| 12 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 13 | The virus , whose main symptom is explosive diarrhoea , kills those who drink water mixed with sewage , are weak from disease or malnutrition , and do not get prompt care . |
| 14 | Of course , he did not get complete ownership for he did not buy the ring but the limited title he got was perfectly valid and he could enforce that against the jeweller . |
| 15 | To quote the report , they live in caravans ‘ because they could not get other dwellings in the right places or on the right terms ; or because caravans meet their needs for cheapness , convenience or mobility ’ . |
| 16 | One is dismayed to learn that 3,000 million do not get pure drinking water and so are too weak to undertake the work necessary to grow more food . |
| 17 | He did not get full credit for his oceanographic work on the Gulf Stream during his two voyages . |
| 18 | I believe that this is because they do everything so well that they do not get excessive pitching movements in their training stall recoveries . |
| 19 | Not only our skeletal muscles but the heart muscle also tends to degenerate if we do not get sufficient exercise , and this can lead eventually to heart failure . |
| 20 | On the welfare front poverty was rediscovered , and on the all-important economic front there was a growing awareness that we just could not get adequate growth out of our stagnant economy . |
| 21 | It worries that people who test positive will not get adequate counselling . |
| 22 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 23 | Our amendments do not get proper consideration on Report or in Committee if there is a timetable motion . |
| 24 | The Minister has also criticised our lack of proposals for individual units , but when we table questions to get information on which to base proposals , which perhaps we will be implementing in six months ' time , we can not get proper answers from the Government . |
| 25 | It does not get proper government support . |
| 26 | I can not get sick pay . |
| 27 | Gasifiers yield nothing but trouble if they do not get continual care and attention . |
| 28 | If you have children under five years of age you can not get free milk but the rates of Family credit are increased because of this . |
| 29 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 30 | Ours do n't get bloody chance to get mildew on . |