Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They might not avail to get Harry out of his prison , but they would make it extremely awkward for Isambard to remove him quietly from the world afterwards . |
| 2 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 3 | British companies were , generally speaking , increasing in size through mergers and consolidation , so the stakes were that much higher and they could not afford to get things wrong ; they needed new management teams to run taken-over businesses ; industrial plants were growing in scale ; finance was becoming more complex ; business was tending to be more and more international ; American operations were penetrating many European markets ; and Britain was facing a host of unprecedented economic pressures and new competition with the post-war recovery of Germany and Japan . |
| 4 | According to Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] , without him the king at one time could not have got bread . |
| 5 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 6 | And here he asks the victims and the adulterers searching questions in a voice that ca n't fail to get results . |
| 7 | I ca n't afford to get fat , not like you — a stone or so overweight wo n't matter in a shop , will it ? ’ |
| 8 | I feel there are some people in Central Office who can not wait to get revenge . |