Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division between planning conditions and site licence conditions highlights the need for co-operation between planners , waste disposal officers and other pollution control agencies , at a pre-planning stage wherever possible , in order to reach agreement on those conditions which are to be attached to the planning consent , and those to be attached to the site licence , thus ensuring that problems of control do not arise at a later stage . |
| 2 | No , we 're not looking at a new wonder drug , you know , the type that you swallow with a glass of water . |
| 3 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
| 4 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 5 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you might not balk at a straight proposition . ’ |
| 7 | I look away , for all the reasons that people like me , with homes and an income , look away : a mixture of helplessness , guilt and the desire not to stare at a perfect stranger , as it were , in bed . |
| 8 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for ‘ potential terrorists ’ on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport ? |
| 9 | ‘ Not called at a bad moment , have I ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 11 | Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle ! |
| 12 | Land prices are already rising at the moment er in this region , even though house prices are not rising at a commensurate level . |
| 13 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 14 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 15 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 16 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 17 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 18 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |
| 19 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 20 | The conductivity does n't stay at a certain level then ? |
| 21 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 22 | Was it her fault if her brain would n't function at a normal level ? |
| 23 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |
| 24 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |
| 25 | She did n't drive at a steady speed like his Mum . |