Example sentences of "not [verb] it [adj] ways " in BNC.
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1 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
2 | He really can not have it both ways . |
3 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
4 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
5 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
6 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
7 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
8 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
9 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
10 | He can not have it both ways . |
11 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
12 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
13 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
14 | He can not have it both ways . |
15 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
16 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
17 | Conservatives ca n't have it all ways . |
18 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
19 | I mean , they ca n't have it all ways ! |
20 | Colonel really ca n't have it all ways . |
21 | Erm peo , people ca n't have it all ways , there has n't been any cut in the police service , in the police budget , I 'm sorry , erm we have for many years funded the police in a very generous way . |
22 | She could n't have it both ways . |
23 | You ca n't have it both ways . |
24 | You ca n't have it both ways . ’ |
25 | Well , you ca n't have it both ways . |
26 | He could n't have it both ways . |
27 | I mean you ca n't have it both ways |
28 | Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ? |
29 | previous track record in Europe , and Councillor , you ca n't have it both ways . |
30 | They ca n't have it both ways . |