Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 2 | The thresholds for small companies are increased to not more than £2.8m for turnover and not more than £1.4m for the balance sheet total , although the number of employees remains the same at an average of 50 . |
| 3 | The thresholds for medium companies are increased to not more than £11.2m for turnover and not more than £5.6m for the balance sheet total ( the number of employees also remains the same at an average of 250 ) . |
| 4 | He did not have the ‘ prerogatives of his office ’ available to peasant priests in Russia , Spain or France or the traditional respect given to English clergymen as gentlemen if not always as priests . |
| 5 | The CFCs are reasonably safe while they remain in the leakproof sealed units but not so when fridges are dumped and crushed . |
| 6 | S 224(4) of the CA1985 states that a company 's first accounting reference period is a period of more than six months but not more than 18 months beginning with the date of its incorporation . |
| 7 | The first is the requirement that not later than 13 weeks after the beginning of the employment , an employee is entitled to a written statement containing particulars of the terms of the employment , which must include details of disciplinary and grievance procedures available to the employee , unless the employer employs fewer than 20 people . |
| 8 | The investigation of the most serious , the most controversial complaints is supervised by the Police Complaints Authority , a body consisting of a chairman appointed by the Queen and not more than 12 members appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | The low turnover rates may be ascribed to continuing pancreatic cell malfunction after recovery from acute alcoholic pancreatitis and suggest that the decreased amylase secretion rates are partly a consequence of impaired amylase synthesis and not simply because of loss of pancreatic tissue . |
| 10 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 11 | He says a local authority can apply to change the electoral system at any time I E a district council but not more than once every ten years . |
| 12 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 13 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 14 | The Health and Safety Agency ( established under Article 12 ) consists of a Chairman and not less than six nor more than nine other members . |
| 15 | It could also include Hungary , Czechoslovakia and possibly others — at least as associates if not yet as full members . |
| 16 | Wycliffe was never at ease in other people 's houses and not only because he was usually bored . |
| 17 | Now I 'm focusing on this new record and not even considering anything that 's happened , and maybe we can come out absolved . ’ |
| 18 | It is essential but not enough to postulate that an object-topic , if it is to qualify as existing in the modus per se , i.e. in its own right and not just as an object of thought , must be a subject , at any given time , of a non-arbitrary set of predicates . |
| 19 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 20 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 21 | The 1908 Punishment of Incest Act made incest ( by men ) punishable by imprisonment for up to seven years and not less than three . |
| 22 | A takeover bid must be accepted within a certain period of time , namely not less than four weeks but not more than ten weeks from the date of when the offer document is made public . |
| 23 | People went to the movies for many reasons but not least because they wanted to see stories which starred very real and very attractive Americans . |
| 24 | 8.5 The Company or its appointed representative shall have the right to inspect such books or accounts and records relating to this Agreement upon reasonable notice and during normal office hours but not more than once in any calendar year . |
| 25 | ‘ Not long before midnight and not long after either , ’ Dr Maingay said authoritatively . |
| 26 | And so , according to Todd , not only is variation in family types an interesting further element of the cultural mosaic , it is also linked to other aspects of that mosaic ; as such , it requires understanding , as a part of the whole and not just as a thing in its own right . |
| 27 | They were permitted into it only when giving evidence and not more than one at a time . |
| 28 | When ITV started , both channels were limited to 50 hours a week and not more than 8 on any one day . |
| 29 | In the first place I am happy to say I have a most comfortable ship the ‘ Parsee ’ ’ although a small one 350 tons Barque with a commodious poop , no steerage passengers and not more than ten or twelve cabin p[assengers] . |
| 30 | This criticism was valid in the early days of the human capital theory but not later when attempts were made to be more specific . |