Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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1 | Here , they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end . |
2 | In spite of these remarkably positive indicators , Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
3 | Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
4 | The normal working was not booked to stop at Chester but the second part , inserted at very short notice , was scheduled to change locomotives there . |
5 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
6 | When , sensing that he had left her alone in more ways than one , the woman asked him to come back to bed , he had not turned to look at her but instead remained silent a moment longer . |
7 | In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all . |
8 | Ms Weldon , a member of the committee who was not asked to sit at the hearing , described the video as a serious attempt to deal with the bride of Christ notion . |
9 | Her friend — for she and Rose had become quite close — had sniffed at Mrs Langtry , and said kindly , ‘ I ‘ ear as ‘ ow she 's a right fat cow these days , ’ and fortunately had not asked to look at the other one she had bought . |
10 | I suppose that , as I myself had not started to smoke at that period of time , it was worse for me , just like garlic eaters . |
11 | People were not encouraged to call at his house . |
12 | Many assumptions are made which pupils are not encouraged to question at all . |
13 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
14 | And we are not allowed to vote at all , but you can bet we will be expected to foot the bill when the European dream turns into a nightmare . |
15 | Phelpses built boats , maintained boats , became champion scullers , taught the gentlemen how to scull , and bowed and doffed their caps ‘ below stairs ’ at the clubs before the war when watermen were not allowed to drink at the bar . |
16 | Adequate resources must be provided by central government , but much of the cost could be met from accumulated capital receipts , which councils are not allowed to spend at present ! |
17 | In the holidays I was not allowed to watch at home either . ’ |
18 | It was a great pity that the team was not allowed to perform at other displays during the anniversary year . |
19 | In Britain , you are not allowed to dive at all if a ship is a war grave . ’ |
20 | If the total flow of money available to finance wages and salaries were rising , at a steady but moderate rate ( say , 5 per cent per annum ) , both unemployment and inflationary rises of prices and costs could be avoided , provided that money wage rates themselves were not allowed to rise at inappropriately high rates . |
21 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |
22 | At the time I was involved in various things at Philips Records and I asked someone if they knew of anyone who could get David out of his contract , and was told that he knew a man called Tony DeFries who was actually not allowed to practise at the bar — he was a consultant , a trouble-shooter , divorce cases . |
23 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
24 | They were n't expected to win at Franklin Gardens , but then again Gloucester are at their best when the challenge is toughest . |
25 | He probably had n't bothered to glance at her . |
26 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
27 | She had n't wanted to go at all . |
28 | ‘ You have n't wanted to look at the barometer in the last four |
29 | As it turned out , Mario was n't allowed to race at Monza because he 'd driven a dirt-track race within the previous twenty-four hours , and it was n't until Watkins Glen at the end of 1968 that he first drove in a FI race . |
30 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |