Example sentences of "[modal v] not get [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I could n't get ultimate warrior I probably |
3 | It was one of the only places that you could get banjo strings to put on the top , because in the old days you could n't get thin guitar strings . |
4 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
5 | you ca n't get new stuff , you ca n't go out and get something new like that , to that quality |
6 | They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages . |
7 | Well I 've got no I ca n't get hot water to , to wash out you know , before I leave it . |
8 | So I mean there 's no reason why you ca n't get hot water , it 's just that erm |
9 | Quite rightly so but we ca n't get complacent health and safety is one of the most important issues of all affecting our members . |
10 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |
11 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
12 | If you ca n't get treated timber , soak it in a simple preservative-filled trough made of bricks covered by a heavy gauge polythene sheet . |
13 | It says that Sun needs multiprocessing desktop systems because the Mountain View , California-based company ca n't get competitive performance from uniprocessor implementations of the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc RISC , in contrast to Hewlett-Packard 's with its own HP 9000 Series 700 top-end uniprocessor workstations , which use the 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC 7100 . |
14 | It says Sun needs multiprocessing desktop solutions because the Mountain View , California-based company ca n't get competitive performance from uniprocessor implementations of the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc RISC , unlike HP 's own 9000 series 700 top-end uniprocessor workstations which use the 99MHz PA RISC 7100 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It worries that people who test positive will not get adequate counselling . |
17 | And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs . |
18 | You wo n't get complete protection from a UPS-on-a-card . |
19 | ‘ He wo n't get caught drink driving or be found rampaging through hotel bedrooms . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Aye so it 's Sharon 's turn to buy it , can , Elliott can not get cheap stuff from the , where Ian works ? |
24 | I can not get sick pay . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |