Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] at the 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 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 6 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 7 | there is one there now , but we were n't able at the time , no |
| 8 | The NVC for weeds was not available at the time of writing , but two named communities which are likely to be recognised are : |
| 9 | The NVC for aquatic plants was not available at the time of writing , but see Spence in Burnett ( 1964 ) . |
| 10 | In this experiment the optimum 60° polar view angle was not used , since suitable support equipment was not available at the time . |
| 11 | This information was not available at the time of the report in April . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To establish this defence the producer must prove that the defect was not present at the time of supply by him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |
| 22 | It was n't clear at the time . |
| 23 | Was n't clear at the time what the circumstances were . |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 25 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |