Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other charters in which Aethelbald is styled ‘ king of the South Angles ’ ( CS 157 : S 94 ; CS 163 : S 101 ) are either not necessarily earlier than 736 or not certainly genuine ( CS 164 : S 103 ) . |
| 2 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 3 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 4 | He was about forty and not very tall . |
| 5 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 6 | under 30 but not under 25 years of age £125 |
| 7 | b ) enabling such grants to be made in respect of costs falling to be charged to accounts in respect of financial years ending after March 1993 but not later than March 1996 . |
| 8 | Each of these bodies is , by statute , comprised of not less than 10 and not more than 15 members appointed by the Secretary of State . |
| 9 | It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough . |
| 10 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 11 | The creditors ' committee must consist of at least three and not more than five creditors . |
| 12 | We play sevens but not as seriously as Fiji or Samoa . ’ |
| 13 | Preferably three but not essentially . |
| 14 | The board of directors consists of at least three but not more than eleven members . |
| 15 | Lord Denning is 91 and not really to be held responsible for views arising from senility . |
| 16 | Among the pictures are the only known independent self-portrait of the artist , the wonderful Suida-Manning ‘ Repentant Magdalene ’ , on loan to the Metropolitan in the mid 1970s and not publicly seen since , the ‘ John the Baptist visited in prison by Salome ’ , the prime version of a composition of which a later replica by the artist is in the collection of Sir Denis Mahon ( exhibited in London last year ) , and the master 's only known still-life , a ‘ Memento Mori ’ , from Feigen 's private collection . |
| 17 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 18 | Then in his mid-thirties and not entirely happy with his pictures , he turned to sculpture and was almost immediately successful with work in the round . |
| 19 | Once again a widow was to outlive her husband — how very different from the experience of those 18th-century Titford wives , worn out after years of child-bearing and dying in their fifties if not before ! |
| 20 | The data must be entered in the columns indicated by the horizontal ‘ ruler ’ , and whole numbers must be given with an explicit decimal point ( i.e. a whole number such as 12 should be entered as 12.0 or simply 12. but not as 12 ) . |
| 21 | The φ coefficient which signifies higher competition for better paying jobs is highly significant and negative in Model I but not significantly different from zero in the other two models . |
| 22 | under 25 but not under 21 years of age £150 |
| 23 | Readers will soon discern , on page 42 if not earlier , that in the personality of Quisling they are faced with a thundering , breathtaking , unsurpassable bore : ‘ He lacked a sense of humour to give him balance . ’ |
| 24 | The Council consists of at least five and not more than thirteen members or one-third of the number of members , whichever is less . |
| 25 | She was seventeen and not exactly in charge of her own life . ’ |
| 26 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 27 | There should be where possible only one and not more than two interviews for the purposes of evaluation , and the interview should not be too long . |
| 28 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 29 | In particular , prices for drawings from the Low Countries were stagnant ( and thus decreased in real terms ) until 1986 , they soared in 1987 but not enough to catch up with French and Italian . |
| 30 | Passenger Carrying Vehicles with more than 8 but not more than 16 passenger seats |