Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those present — the press at previews and the public at the major European motor shows — could n't have been less prepared for what they saw . |
| 2 | Fresh , though he could n't have been less than thirty and Jezrael was still young enough to think that was old . |
| 3 | It could n't have been less welcome at that particular moment . |
| 4 | We made love again , and we must have been tired , because it ca n't have been less than two hours later that I woke up . |
| 5 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |