Example sentences of "[vb past] not at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in March , she realised her period was overdue , Liza did not at first worry . |
| 2 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 3 | If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused , because his premises does not require one , or did not at that point require a fire certificate . |
| 4 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 5 | Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise . |
| 6 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 7 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 8 | Section 4(1) ( b ) stipulates , " that the person proceeded against did not at any time supply the product to another " . |
| 9 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 10 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 11 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 12 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 13 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 14 | Co-ordination was still seen as predominantly a ‘ top-down ’ process by planners and did not at this time focus upon activities at the client level . |
| 15 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 16 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 17 | You did n't at that stage I do n't think make any sort of link towards referrals and introductions . |
| 18 | I did n't at any time actually offer it to her . ’ |
| 19 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 20 | He had not at that time known that specific request for permission to shoot at Yugoslavs in support of Military Government had come from Gen Keightley at 5 Corps in Austria . |
| 21 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 22 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 23 | Despite the policy agreements , the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved . |
| 24 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 25 | These two are in a very small minority of black sportsmen who had not at some stage faced the distressing realization that they were black and so they were different and that difference could significantly limit their chances of access to the kind of resources available to others , prestige , affluence , esteem in the eyes of others . |