Example sentences of "not [vb infin] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 4 | The train did not slow at the scene of the accident . |
| 5 | Most notably , ensuring that a few do not profit at the expense of the many and limiting foreign control of the economy are important concerns in Hungary , and will no doubt influence the law . |
| 6 | They did not know at the beginning of the week how much they would bring home at the end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Judgment against him can not be obtained by default ( Ord 12 , r 2 ) ; but , if he does not appear at the hearing of the action he is deemed to admit the notice and is bound by any judgment , even if by consent ( Ord 12 , r 3(3) ) . |
| 9 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 10 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 11 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |
| 12 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 13 | I am interested to see that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) would not balk at the prospect of having to sort out those knotty problems . |
| 14 | We get calls from our customers , from receptionists , for example , who can not balance at the end of the shift . |
| 15 | But for parents the cost will not stop at the price of a movie ticket . |
| 16 | But they did not stop at the analysis of the system of meanings , they used this analysis as a basis for recovering ‘ hidden ’ meanings — for interpreting what they were studying . |
| 17 | Éomer 's intervention does not help him much , for he and his companions can not decide at the end of chapter 2 whether they have seen Saruman or not . |
| 18 | The drawing suggests that there might come a time when the system does not recover at the bottom of its dive but continues heading downwards to collapse . |
| 19 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 20 | Gray did not appreciate at the start of the season that the team was just not good enough . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , as already suggested , wages did not decrease at the height of the slump of 1929 to 1933 at anything like the level of reductions which occurred in the early 1920s and some type of stability and balance was being established . |
| 22 | Unlike the 19th century bill , the contemporary bill of lading often does not arrive at the port of destination or transhipment prior to the arrival of the goods , especially when the maritime journey lasts a few days or less . |
| 23 | Baxter 's hatred for authority did not end at the foot of Ibrox 's hallowed stairway . |
| 24 | But now they do not come at the end of the list . |
| 25 | These reflections do not come at the end of the piece — Palomar then goes on to make analogies with human communication — but they do encapsulate its essential spirit and that of many other pieces in the book . |
| 26 | I will not live at the mercy of my hormones , she told herself savagely . |
| 27 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 28 | Unlike many orchestras , the Berliners , he suggested , do not play at the edge of their musical tolerance , hounded by fear , ‘ swallowing the notes ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , it does suggest that there are recognisable " black " voice characteristics which do not operate at the level of segmental phonology , but have to do with such factors as prosodic features , voice setting , and perhaps other elements which remain to be identified . |