Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 2 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
| 3 | This was a shade different to his mood three days ago , when his clubs were left at Heathrow Airport and did not arrive in time for him to compete in Wednesday 's pro-am . |
| 4 | The pain of losing a daughter in such circumstances did not diminish with time , Mrs Cottrill admitted . |
| 5 | Despite valiant efforts by our physiotherapists , my hamstring did not recover in time for the 200 metres . |
| 6 | Ask Computer Systems Inc warns that it will only break even , and may make a loss for its fiscal third quarter , adding that the poor profit forecast results from its failure to close about $10m in sales in the period but that does not necessarily mean the company permanently lost those sales ; the company said a significant amount of software licence sales it had expected for the quarter did not close in time . |
| 7 | They did not ask for time to think it over ; there was only one possible answer to such a proposition . |
| 8 | Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call . |
| 9 | She nearly did not remember in time , because the similarity was such an unlikely one and she was hunting for pictures of hatred . |
| 10 | Some things do not change despite time . |
| 11 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 12 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 13 | Note that the components of eqn ( 4.11 ) do not depend on time , and so the Schwarzschild metric is static . |
| 14 | IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are . |
| 15 | If they do n't arrive on time , write setting a new date . |
| 16 | Station refurbishment seems a mere insult when the trains do n't run on time . |
| 17 | If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time . |
| 18 | The Scottish Court of Session upheld the Edinburgh VAT Tribunal decision , in the case of Link Housing Association Ltd , that ‘ person constructing ’ status does not diminish with time . |
| 19 | Diagrammatically , the expectations hypothesis is given by the horizontal line in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 20 | This backwardation relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 21 | The contango relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( again assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 22 | Now Xi does not change with time ; it is the initial position of the particle . |
| 23 | A useful feature of such dynamic spectra is the isosbestic point , which is a point where the total absorbance does not change with time , although the absorbances at points on either side do change as the concentrations of reagents and products evolve . |
| 24 | He may be naturally drawn towards a discovery of a state which does not depend on time and space for its reality , but the medium of the imperfect world into which he is born means that : Such knowing and feeling , the mystics say , is given in response to a process — an ordering of the drives in human nature so that they can be expressed as love . |
| 25 | After the demise of the telegram , loyal greetings are sent with one white rose via a commercial flower delivery service , but the reply does not arrive in time for lunch any more . |
| 26 | This model , as indicated earlier , makes three assumptions : that ability is unidimensional ( a trait ) ; that item difficulty is independent of the other items in the test ; that item difficulty is independent of the student i.e. it does not vary with the different learning experiences of students and hence it does not vary over time . |
| 27 | If this does n't arrive in time , there is an emergency re-order form in each book which you can send to your branch . |