Example sentences of "can not get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without that certificate , the charity can not obtain the repayment of the basic rate tax and the donor can not get higher rate relief . |
| 2 | If you obviously can not get down ahead or if you have doubts about it , then you have no alternative but to turn off , but check your speed first ! |
| 3 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 4 | Some older people who live alone or who can not get out appreciate the security of knowing that they can contact someone in an emergency . |
| 5 | You can not get a rebate on the standard community charge . |
| 6 | Toys should become the owners ' possession and be placed where Fido can not get them . |
| 7 | It has , meanwhile , steadfastly ignored the argument that people who can not get out will do their best to leave ; while those with the ‘ insurance policy ’ of a passport in their back pockets are more likely to stay on and try to make their home-town work . |
| 8 | In the mornings Elaine can not get up before 9am — which is when her care assistant starts work . |
| 9 | So jewellers can not get their new stock hallmarked and 800,000 articles are now waiting to be examined before they can be put on sale . |
| 10 | One of Suntory 's products is whisky and Japan can not get enough of the stuff . |
| 11 | Yet Henderson is also fully capable of hitting home runs if he can not get on base . |
| 12 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 13 | can not get SSP because of pregnancy |
| 14 | If it is less than the level at which NI contributions must be paid , your employee can not get SSP . |
| 15 | In addition , you should keep a supply of form SMP1 which you will need to give to those employees who can not get SMP from you . |
| 16 | If she was not , she can not get SMP from you unless she was ‘ fairly dismissed ’ . |
| 17 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 18 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 19 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
| 20 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
| 21 | • If you can not get to sleep at night , stay in bed and rest . |
| 22 | It says it can not get or keep skilled labour . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
| 25 | On the other hand , you can not get much bigger in Hongkong ; some of Asia 's strongest economies are closed to foreign banks ; and what will happen to your base and best source of profits after Hongkong returns to Chinese rule in 1997 ? |
| 26 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 27 | You can not get away from it . |
| 28 | Japanese trading companies are owed nearly $400m for exports and can not get an answer about when they might be paid . |
| 29 | The real picture is even worse , since 10% of contracted sales fall through , as buyers pull out because they are nervous or can not get the finance . |
| 30 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |