Example sentences of "[not/n't] get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few men will not get the message during the flight , and will land believing themselves to be on a different drop zone . |
| 2 | If we do not get the grant , events will have to be cut . ’ |
| 3 | After much argument the Head conceded that the Art department ‘ did not get the pick of the bunch ’ when pupils were making option selections . |
| 4 | Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the overall reduction in residential capacity sometimes means that the most troubled youngsters do not get the help they require . |
| 6 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 7 | if they can not show a high prevalence of HIV , they will not get the money they need to concentrate on the important job of prevention . |
| 8 | eg Marshall ( Ipswich ) , Fairclough ( Leeds ) then that player does not get the credit for a clean sheet . |
| 9 | They could not get the strap she was clinging to out of her hand . |
| 10 | His sheep were suffering from foot-rot , and however many ditches he dug , he could not get the water off his fields . |
| 11 | Their farms are generally too large to get the benefits of the MacSharry proposals , but they do not get the benefit of the less-favoured area payments . |
| 12 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 13 | But Sid Cornish , who was a serious atheist , could not get the sight of the two kneeling men out of his mind . |
| 14 | When Victoria Gillick campaigned to prevent girls under sixteen getting contraceptive advice without their parents ' consent , she created a lot of confusion , and although she was ultimately unsuccessful , many girls still assume that they can not get the Pill or any other form of contraception , such as the cap or diaphragm , until this age . |
| 15 | One is that younger children ask as many questions as older children but do not get the degree of cooperative response from their partners . |
| 16 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 17 | ‘ Come away , the pair of you , this 'll not get the work done . |
| 18 | As for work , he had auditioned for the role of the Dauphin in Anouilh 's The Lark at the Lincoln Center , but he did not get the part . |
| 19 | Did you not get the sack ? |
| 20 | You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it . |
| 21 | I think this is generally because there is so little loft on the clubface and they fear that they will not get the ball into the air . |
| 22 | The only complaint from Sam Torrance after his par 72 for 146 was that he could not get the ball into the hole . |
| 23 | It is this feature which , more than anything else , makes the Aircoupe safe , being impossible to stall , nor can it be spun : you simply can not get the angle of attack to a high enough value . |
| 24 | Anyway , so might not get the opportunity anyway , so it might not arise . |
| 25 | But it really started on Friday in the Stranmillis Theatre with the Ulster Youth Dance , who could not get the theatre at any other time for its Rite of Spring . |
| 26 | Very much shaken as she was by the assault , she nevertheless would not have voluntarily given up her job — but she did not get the choice . |
| 27 | That will not be solved by the Opposition which , whatever happens tonight , will not get the chance to form a government and which does not deserve to anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ At 71 I might not get the chance to go again . ’ |
| 29 | IBM is said to be late off the mark and may not get the chance to inject itself officially . |
| 30 | Whatever his intentions had been , he did not get the chance to stride off . |