Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 It is of greatest significance for persons employed under fixed-term contracts where the term has not expired at the time of the sale but the purchaser does not wish to take them on , and for employees with long notice periods such as three to six months .
2 He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work .
3 What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise .
4 What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away .
5 I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown .
6 But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance .
7 A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them .
8 The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives .
9 We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew .
10 The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged .
11 I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party .
12 Unlike many people , Rita did not write to The Times deploring modern standards of English .
13 A contract for the sale of unascertained goods may or may not be void because of the fact that certain goods have perished or do not exist at the time of the contract .
14 In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking .
15 ‘ If they do not fall by the time the Commons returns on January 11 , I will put forward legislation to free up this market .
16 I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite .
17 I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness .
18 He also noted how photographs could contain details the photographer had not observed at the time that the lens was focused and the exposure was made .
19 He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law .
20 The rich and famous had not arrived by the time Rain Morgan did , although there were plenty of county folk poised to spot them .
21 She leaned on the armrest , trying not to think of the time , and watched the grim scenery go by .
22 She stepped into the brightly varnished launch , aided by a uniformed boatman , trying not to think of the time when Lucenzo would bow out of her life .
23 I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset !
24 I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset !
25 The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods .
26 A program which depends on several hours of training does not allow for the time and number constraints of the classroom .
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