Example sentences of "can not get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you ca n't get new stuff , you ca n't go out and get something new like that , to that quality |
| 2 | They say they still want to find out how the girls died , but ca n't get legal aid to sue for damages . |
| 3 | Well I 've got no I ca n't get hot water to , to wash out you know , before I leave it . |
| 4 | So I mean there 's no reason why you ca n't get hot water , it 's just that erm |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If you ca n't get free prescriptions |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You ca n't get proper Eccles cakes in the South of England . |
| 14 | You ca n't get proper Eccles cakes in the South of England . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Aye so it 's Sharon 's turn to buy it , can , Elliott can not get cheap stuff from the , where Ian works ? |
| 20 | I can not get sick pay . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |