Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 2 | It is a question , ’ Loppe said , ‘ whether it would not be cheaper to let them do all the refining . |
| 3 | This means that it must not be wider than is reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer 's business ; it must not place an unreasonable restraint on the employee 's freedom to earn his or her living ; and it must not be too wide from the public viewpoint . |
| 4 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 5 | The cash value of scientific observations in this context must therefore be based upon subjective experience and can not be greater than the cash value of the latter ; for it is subjective experience that , ultimately , validates our objective scales of energy intensity . |
| 6 | El Salvador is a poor country of just five million people ; a place where the gulf between rich and poor could not be greater . |
| 7 | In terms of individual responsibility the contrast between libertarianism and Christianity could not be greater . |
| 8 | The accuracy of the feedback need not be greater than the discrimination ability of the trainee but equally its value will diminish if it is too approximate . |
| 9 | For these reasons our test formula — x must not be greater than 2y — is here not wholly reliable . |
| 10 | Yet the contrast between the success of science in devising methods to overcome these problems and the under-developed state of police practice could not be greater . |
| 11 | One place lower would be 6 and of course 6 can not be greater than 6 . |
| 12 | [ If a range of prices is offered this range should not be greater than [ £500,000 ] ; |
| 13 | The number of troops and the amount of equipment of all non-German armed forces stationed in Berlin will not be greater than at the time of signature of the present treaty . |
| 14 | The intrinsic value of an option can not be greater than the premium itself as this situation would provide investors with an instant arbitrage profit . |
| 15 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 16 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 17 | Might it not be simpler just to let him go ? |
| 18 | The shoulders of each player must not be lower than his hips ’ . |
| 19 | Risers should not be lower than 4″ , or higher than 7″ . |
| 20 | The standards for thesis acceptance should not be lower than those applied by journal referees when considering papers for publication . |
| 21 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 22 | The teamwork done there with the headmaster and teachers could not be better . |
| 23 | Would it not be better to talk to the ambulance staff before he talked to his colleages at the Ministry of Defence ? |
| 24 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 25 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 26 | ‘ Our wives and our little ones will become a prey ; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt ? |
| 27 | But if you can not afford to leave , might it not be better to put up with the treatment that you have received rather than becoming unemployed ? |
| 28 | Yet would it not be better to abandon this headlong errand and sleep rather than go out once more into the drenching darkness ? |
| 29 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 30 | Sex could not be better than this . |