Example sentences of "[vb mod] not get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The local transport authority simply could n't get spare parts from the British to keep the buses on the roads . |
| 5 | I know I know everybody will be disappointed but I could n't get cardboard ones , stick it all in . |
| 6 | I could n't get other people to see the point of me . |
| 7 | I could n't get ultimate warrior I probably |
| 8 | You could n't get double O seven . |
| 9 | Dumb bitches … with big teeth … all the better to eat you with … oh shit ! … there he went again … could n't get fuckin' dogs out of his mind … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 12 | you ca n't get new stuff , you ca n't go out and get something new like that , to that quality |
| 13 | They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages . |
| 14 | Well I 've got no I ca n't get hot water to , to wash out you know , before I leave it . |
| 15 | So I mean there 's no reason why you ca n't get hot water , it 's just that erm |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you ca n't get free prescriptions |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
| 20 | She brings home everything except potatoes and anyone who says that one ca n't get fresh vegetables in London must do her shopping by telephone , she is convinced . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You ca n't get proper Eccles cakes in the South of England . |
| 25 | You ca n't get proper Eccles cakes in the South of England . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It worries that people who test positive will not get adequate counselling . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The four month hitch has been caused by the need for a process change in cache memory , without which , Cypress wo n't get good yields for the part . |