Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time .
2 While every effort is made to offer those who book late the course they have requested , the school reserves the right to offer an alternative Executive Course in the case of applications not received within the specified time .
3 The kind of music she had not heard for a long time .
4 Many scrutinies , moreover , are not completed within the two-year time span , and departments have frequently been criticised for delays in implementation .
5 We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon .
6 The impurity is not confined to the actual time of bleeding , but continues for seven days beyond the last sign of vaginal blood , thus effectively confining women to this state of impurity for twelve to fifteen days of the month .
7 ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller .
8 Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made .
9 Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time .
10 These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate .
11 Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years .
12 Lions are strong but can not run for a long time .
13 Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session .
14 ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible .
15 There was also a section where goods not redeemed within the allotted time were for sale .
16 I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq .
17 During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety .
18 If LIFESPAN RDBI can not complete within the restricted time , it will stop at a sensible position from which it can subsequently restart .
19 Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time .
20 He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time .
21 Agree that charges for the Remuneration Certificate service be not introduced at the present time .
22 There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present .
23 Yes , it does — if one does not pay within the stipulated time .
24 One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time .
25 In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold .
26 She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
27 If the chosen third party is an expert , the court can not interfere with the contractual time limit .
28 If that action is not taken within the agreed time and your debtor 's promise is broken you must immediately move to the next collection stage .
29 If Libya did not comply within a short time period , the USA , Britain and France would seek UN endorsement for sanctions .
30 It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial .
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