Example sentences of "not be more [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he can not be more than five or six , he wears a man 's anorak , badly zipped and uneven , a heap of purple fabric tilted to one side and a small freckled shoulder bare on the other . |
| 2 | To this end : In the Government 's view , the total increase [ in pay ] for any group compared with the previous year … should not be more than 5 per cent . |
| 3 | As I passed the boy , who could not be more than 10 years of age , he said : |
| 4 | ‘ She can not be more than twelve years old . ’ |
| 5 | One girl can not be more than twelve . |
| 6 | I would say from the point where I was told on the radio that the officers were entering the premises to the point where I was told everybody was secured , could not be more than four five minutes . |
| 7 | Even today , however , the older idea still prevails on a vote by a show of hands , when the common law rule is that each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares held ; a rule which , although it can be altered by the constitution , is normally maintained , if only because the number of a human being 's hands can not be more than two . |
| 8 | Since there is only one cycle created when I to J is added there will be no cycles left after the edge p to q is dropped and so there can not be more than one path from i to l for any i . |
| 9 | At first sight this question might seem to be a nonsense : since , as we have seen , a reasonable definition of the Universe is ‘ everything that has , does and will exist ’ , surely there can not be more than one of them ? |
| 10 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 11 | I hope that there will not be more than one bid from within a company and I believe that it is unlikely to happen . |
| 12 | The four key criteria on economic convergence were ( i ) that inflation should be no more than 1.5 per cent above the average of the three best-performing member countries ; ( ii ) that the government deficit should not exceed 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and the public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) that the currency should have remained within the 2.25 per cent fluctuation margins in the European Monetary System for at least two years ; and ( iv ) that interest rates should not be more than 2 percentage points above the three best-performing states over the previous 12 months . |
| 13 | To avoid this , windows should not be more than 94 6-pixel characters from the edge of the applications window ( 104 6-pixel characters from the leftmost edge of the screen ) . |
| 14 | But the difference can not be more than seven days , since although the next financial year begins from the end of the last , it has to end within seven days of the next accounting reference period . |
| 15 | One can therefore say that the observations of the gamma ray background do not provide any positive evidence for primordial black holes , but they do tell us that on average there can not be more than 300 in every cubic light-year in the universe . |