Example sentences of "[prep] [not/n't] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professor shall reside within the University ( i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax , the central point of Oxford ) during six months at least in each academical year , between the first day of October and the ensuing first day of August , and in particular during not less than six weeks of each term . |
| 2 | This is quite a feat , for not even when a lunch is offered do my parliamentary colleagues turn up in droves for a morning seminar . |
| 3 | Bookings made less than four days in advance must be paid for not later than fifteen minutes before the performance . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 5 | Grammar-school places should be provided for not more than 25 or 30 per cent of the age group : the new orthodoxy was canonized . |
| 6 | So large was the first general edition of 1935 that you should easily find a copy for not more than £10 . |
| 7 | Pupils excluded indefinitely ( usually for not more than 15 days ) has trebled since 1989 . |
| 8 | Even in industrial Babergh hundred , Suffolk , stripping the surface layer from the record exposes the original economy of the wood-pasture country — specialised dairying , pig fattening and horse breeding , in almost half its villages , which preserved this traditional system , the top people accounted for not more than 14 per cent of the wealth , a solitary £100 man for just 4½ per cent . |
| 9 | Under s.4 of the ITSFEA 1988 ( newly amended s.32(a) of the SEA 1934 ) , natural persons found guilty of insider trading ’ … shall upon conviction be fined not more than $1m , or imprisoned for not more than 10 years , or both ’ , whereas for persons other than natural persons the fine stands at $2.5m . |
| 10 | For a people long famous as navigators and seamen , the French Basques have a remarkably short coastline , running for not more than twenty miles from the estuary of the river Adour , three miles ocean wards from the port of Bayonne , to the Spanish frontier at Hendaye . |
| 11 | Any person who without reasonable cause fails to comply may be sent to prison for not more than six months . |
| 12 | They go out of the room for not more than ten minutes in order to prepare their story . |
| 13 | The picket was charged with obstruction of the highway although the whole incident lasted for not more than nine minutes . |
| 14 | If there is no quorum present within half an hour of the time appointed for the meeting , it must be adjourned for not more than twenty-one days ( r 6.91(3) ) to such a time and place as the chairman thinks fit ( r 6.91(2) ) . |
| 15 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 16 | The amount of the penalty , recoverable by the Registrar , varies according to whether the company is private or public and to the length of time that the default continues ; the minimum being £100 for a private company and £500 for a public company when the default is for not more than three months and the maximum £1000 for a private and £5,000 for a public company when the default exceeds 12 months . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years , or by a fine of not more than $500.00 , or both . ’ |
| 20 | There is only one exception , if during the separation period you have lived together temporarily for not more than six months in all , in a final attempt to make the marriage work , you may still be eligible to apply for a divorce under the simplified procedure . |
| 21 | Credit for not more than 50% of the Certificate or Diploma programmes , excluding the case study and project can be achieved by accreditation of prior learning . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) The restrictions to be disregarded must last for not more than five years from when the agreement becomes operative or for not more than two years beyond the expiry of any relevant employment or services contract , whichever is the later . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) The restrictions to be disregarded must last for not more than five years from when the agreement becomes operative or for not more than two years beyond the expiry of any relevant employment or services contract , whichever is the later . |
| 24 | You sp can speak for not more than five minutes . |
| 25 | Wel welcome to the meeting you may s you may speak for not more than five minutes . |
| 26 | You must speak for not more than five minutes . |
| 27 | You may speak for not more than five minutes . |
| 28 | To achieve complete combustion , in most cases , high temperatures in the order of 600–900°C , for not less than 0.3 seconds are required , in order to ignite and burn the odorous gases before they form the fine carbon of black smoke which is far more difficult to burn . |
| 29 | The main point of contention , according to one of the shops visited is the distinction between what is a ‘ genuine ’ sale item ( i.e. one that has been on sale in the shop at full price for not less than 28 consecutive days during the preceding six months ) and a ‘ special purchase ’ , such as a remainder or bargain book . |
| 30 | She was dead already , had been for not less than twelve hours according to the doc . ’ |