Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 2 | The second type of breakage occurs not at the top tie but near ground level , when the extra leverage imparted by wind on the long stem reveals the weak spot in a stake that has been allowed to rot and deteriorate . |
| 3 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 4 | In bars 11–12 , the root note of the Am add 11 chord should be played not at the 7th fret of the D string , as in the start of the piece , but as an open A string . |
| 5 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 6 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 7 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 8 | Bibliometrics emerges not at the level of individual records of publications , but at the level of files of bibliographic records , in which values in the fields recur . |
| 9 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 10 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 11 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 12 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 13 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 14 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 15 | This exclamation was directed not at the Captain but at the aromatic roast loin of pork that was steaming towards them , propelled by Cesare . |
| 16 | But Jesus ' criticisms were in fact directed not at the laws , but at the way the rabbis had interpreted them . |
| 17 | Indeed these three banks have special opportunities for widening the credit horizon of people who do not at the moment have bank accounts . |
| 18 | The pair basked in a shared arrogance ; arrogance aimed not at the kid in the street but arrogance aimed at Britain 's pop aristocracy . |
| 19 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 20 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 21 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 22 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 23 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 24 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 25 | The Order strikes not at the creation of the obligation but only at the performance of it while the Order is in force . |
| 26 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 27 | I asked that in section fifteen should include , which it does n't at the moment , the following matters . |
| 28 | I know it does n't at the moment but you know what I mean . |
| 29 | Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) . |
| 30 | I have n't at the moment because last year it was it was National Grid who have n't |