Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |
| 2 | While they are carefully listed , there is not enough to get their flavour Franklin lived many lives : that of scientist investigating electrical phenomena for the first time , lobbyist for the new born United States in London , and gun runner for the infant |
| 3 | One morning , Clare found herself in a rumpled bed in a strange bedroom with only sixpence in her purse — not enough to get to work . |
| 4 | Not enough to get my name known in those circles , I would n't have thought . ’ |
| 5 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
| 6 | Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School . |
| 7 | A basis of secure attachment enables people not only to get on with others but also to achieve a measure of autonomy in their lives . |
| 8 | Crucial to Mr Reagan 's success was the role in the White House of Jim Baker , his chief of staff ; not only to get good things done , but to make sure that bad things were left undone . |
| 9 | People are there for the music , not just to get totally shitfaced ’ |
| 10 | It 's gone back into smaller venues , and people are there for the music , not just to get totally shitfaced . |
| 11 | The whole point of allowing the big schemes to go ahead at this difficult economic time , after all , is not just to get roads and railway lines built but to cut unemployment and get the economy moving . |
| 12 | It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief . |
| 13 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |
| 14 | So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch . |
| 15 | In other words , not simply to get steaming . |
| 16 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 17 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
| 18 | It still was n't enough to get past Dwight Ennis . |
| 19 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 20 | I have n't really to get down it was just I , I took . |