Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
2 | The Socialists reply that the actions in question were not illegal at the time ( the law on party financing came in later ) . |
3 | He found that the circumstances which had arisen were not foreseeable at the time of the contract but he still decided to take into account supervening events : this made the contract unenforceable and unreasonable . |
4 | The discussion presented has the benefit of hindsight : although each idea appears obvious and in an obvious sequence , most were not obvious at the time they were discovered , the steps were not considered in this order and the overall result does not seem obvious even now . |
5 | The NVC for weeds was not available at the time of writing , but two named communities which are likely to be recognised are : |
6 | The NVC for aquatic plants was not available at the time of writing , but see Spence in Burnett ( 1964 ) . |
7 | In this experiment the optimum 60° polar view angle was not used , since suitable support equipment was not available at the time . |
8 | This information was not available at the time of the report in April . |
9 | ALTHOUGH it was not apparent at the time , the legal commission of the German athletic federation ( DLV ) may have , in the long-term , bestowed a huge favour on world sport by quashing the four-year suspension imposed on Katrin Krabbe , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller . |
10 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
11 | The Court of Appeal in Gregory ( 1982 ) 77 Cr App R 41 considered this case to be one of " instantaneous appropriation " , yet Pitham & Hehl does look like a case where the course of stealing was not complete at the time when the defendants got their hands on the furniture . |
12 | The main set of London University theses for inter-library loan use is housed in the Senate House Library , but access was not possible at the time of the visit . |
13 | The social services tradition of top-down capital programming , which was not untypical at the time , was replaced by one in which most new services were — at minimum — strongly influenced by a bottom-up CMHT input ; an input characterized by detailed knowledge of people 's real needs , preferences and capacities . |
14 | To establish this defence the producer must prove that the defect was not present at the time of supply by him . |
15 | Here A's mistake is so extraordinary that we are justified in wondering whether he was not insane at the time of the deed , his insanity being an omitted fact . |
16 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
17 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
18 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |