Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 2 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 3 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 4 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 5 | You could n't leave in less than two days . |
| 6 | ‘ They ca n't think further ahead than four years , can they ? |
| 7 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 8 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 9 | You ca n't do any better than this ? |
| 10 | I 'd rather have the doctor saying that I ca n't go home rather than me signing myself out . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 12 | Yeah well I ca n't , I ca n't get any further than that . |
| 13 | I have very , very small hands , but even for me , I ca n't write comfortably more than half way across that page . |
| 14 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 15 | I sha n't impose any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I promise you it wo n't go any further than the three of us , ’ Sabrina said . |
| 17 | Particular example , remember this is all confidential I I 'm told so er er it wo n't go any further than this room . |
| 18 | The cattle are about to be sold , but they wo n't move any further than the farmers ' field . |
| 19 | But because they have not reached agreement with the Press Association who supply newspapers with the racecards , it wo n't reach much further than racecourse punters who buy an official card . |
| 20 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |