Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] at the [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , Alyssia thought , she had not jumped at the idea the moment it was suggested was anybody 's guess . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 4 | Again , the same physical object has been viewed before and after the solution of the puzzle , and presumably the image on the observer 's retina does not change at the moment the solution is found and the face discovered . |
| 5 | Are not making at the moment the part , the problem with the manufacturer . |
| 6 | The ever increasing volume of legislation must inevitably result in ambiguities of statutory language which are not perceived at the time the legislation is enacted . |
| 7 | As a synonym is not held at the address the program has computed , a further search is needed to find it . |
| 8 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |