Take the natural numbers including zero with their usual total order:
A nonempty subset with an upper bound is contained in the finite set . It therefore has a greatest element, which is its least upper bound. The empty subset has least upper bound . Thus is a bounded-complete partially ordered set.
But is a directed set, since is above any two members. It has no upper bound in : for any proposed bound , the member is larger. It therefore has no least upper bound. Hence