Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not want to go slower than 1/200th second because of camera movement and , for a bright day , f8 at 1/200th with ASA 200 rated film will give a result . |
| 2 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 3 | Mr O'Hara Labour MP for Knowsley South was unhappy over the ‘ insensitive ’ wording which made it clear the payments were for people not expected to live longer than six months . |
| 4 | And even the most optimistic TEC directors do not expect to raise more than 5% of their income from private sources . |
| 5 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 6 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 7 | The following fall into this category : ( i ) step-parents ; ( ii ) anyone with whom the child has lived for a period of three years within the last five ; the relevant period of three years need not be continuous but must not have ended more than three months before the application is made ; ( iii ) where the child is in care , anyone who has the consent of the local authority ; ( iv ) where the child is not in care , anyone who has the consent of each person with parental responsibility for the child . |
| 8 | It is also important to ensure that the tenant should not have to redecorate more than once in any one year and that while there is no objection to paints and materials being of " good quality " they should not be of the " best " quality . |
| 9 | British Aerospace has been told it will not have to repay more than forty-four million pounds in sweeteners from the Government given as an incentive to clinch the Rover purchase deal . |
| 10 | And anyhow , Cara would probably not have lasted more than two minutes in her job in the journalistic field had she not grown a few hard edges . |
| 11 | The mile-deep canyon itself can not have started more than 10 million years ago , so here too there must have been some very rapid erosion at some time . |
| 12 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 13 | Mark carefully where the pipe is to be bent : do not attempt to make more than one bend at a time without checking |
| 14 | Well their forty nine cc 's are not meant to do more than thirty |
| 15 | It narrows the differential , so that those in the top band are not forced to pay more than three times those in the bottom band . |
| 16 | As long as the communists held power , he was not allowed to employ more than 12 people . |
| 17 | Credit unions are by law not allowed to charge more than 12.6 per cent interest on loans to their members . |
| 18 | they 're not allowed to do more than ten hours each . |
| 19 | Undertakings under the control of resident individuals without the participation of a corporation are not allowed to have more than 500 employees . |
| 20 | Services should be provided near enough so that people do not to have to venture further than their local shops or post office . |
| 21 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 22 | An adequate performer if you do n't want to spend more than £100 . |
| 23 | Well I can choose what I do n't want to do more than what I can do , that 's easier to you know . |
| 24 | You do n't need to go further than that . |
| 25 | Well , I think the budget 's ninety , in the nineties but we do n't expect to spend more than sixty million . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't plan to open more than twice a year , otherwise you garden with a view to what others will think . ’ |
| 27 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 28 | ( b ) Do n't try to teach more than two linguistic items at the same time , eg the present continuous tense plus vocabulary concerned with the post office would be enough for one period . |
| 29 | I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already . |
| 30 | He 'll have a good Well you do n't have to date more than one guy . |