Example sentences of "not [vb infin] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day . |
| 2 | Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 3 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 4 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 5 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 6 | KPMG would not comment at the recent agm . |
| 7 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 8 | The Whites had vast total forces but the separate forces did not attack at the same time . |
| 9 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 10 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 11 | In a fixed date action , if the defendant has not delivered a defence within the time limited , or in any action where the defendant does not appear at the pre-trial review ( or preliminary arbitration appointment ) , evidence by affidavit is admissible without notice unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(2) ; Ord 19 , r 5(2) ; Term No 2 ) . |
| 12 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 13 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 14 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 15 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 16 | The first is whether in construing ambiguous or obscure statutory provisions your Lordships should relax the historic rule that the courts must not look at the Parliamentary history of legislation or Hansard for the purpose of construing such legislation . |
| 17 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 18 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 19 | Coffin did not look at the severed hands , where he imagined the signs of a fight would show . |
| 20 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 21 | The sequence was still largely without dates , and more importantly , the development from one broad technological phase to another did not occur at the same time everywhere . |
| 22 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 23 | The outside world could not guess at the disturbing cross-currents . |
| 24 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 25 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 26 | The Sanhedrin did not meet at the high priest 's house ( Mark 14:53 ; Matt. |
| 27 | Allen was nominated as one of the 135 commissioners ( MPs and others ) to form the high court of justice to conduct the trial of Charles I. The meetings of the court started on 8 January 1649 but Allen did not attend at the Painted Chamber in Whitehall until 17 January . |
| 28 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
| 29 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 30 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |