Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] at a " 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 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
| 3 | Provided that the population is not trapped at a local optimum , and provided there is at least some genetic variation in the appropriate direction , the optimal life history will eventually be reached . |
| 4 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 5 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 6 | No , we 're not looking at a new wonder drug , you know , the type that you swallow with a glass of water . |
| 7 | I belatedly realized I was not looking at a reproduction . |
| 8 | In addition , for any reader who has a small workshop with a minimum of machinery here is an area of work where you need not feel at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |
| 10 | With that Honourable he could approach a ready Miss D'Arcy who would not look at a tradesman , a craftsman , let alone a common man whatever his industry or honesty . |
| 11 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
| 14 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 15 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you might not balk at a straight proposition . ’ |
| 17 | There is no legally guaranteed freedom of speech , no legal right to a fair trial which Parliament could not remove at a stroke . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ Not called at a bad moment , have I ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Saunders does not stop at a description of social division as a source of significant social action . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal held that the notice was not incorporated in the contract , since it was not displayed at a spot visible to plaintiff before she made the contract . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Land prices are already rising at the moment er in this region , even though house prices are not rising at a commensurate level . |
| 26 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 27 | Our armed forces policy was to be phased in over 10 years , not introduced at a stroke , as the hon. Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) appears to think . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 30 | 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 . |