Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] at that time " in BNC.

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1 During the construction of the Blisworth to Peterborough branch line of the old London & Birmingham Railway in 1845 , the engineer and surveyor of the route , one Robert Stephenson , being faced with a hilly terrain near to the villages of Yarwell and Wansford decided to tunnel through as a cutting was not practicable at that time .
2 Ministers also noted that more generous terms were simply not attainable at that time .
3 I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month .
4 It was not common at that time to see a soldier at home in Britain wearing parachute wings , for despite the Parachute Regiment — a newcomer to the army 's Order of Battle — having mounted raids in France and Italy , and having taken part , with heavy casualties , in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns , airborne forces did not have a very noticeable public profile before the days of Normandy and Arnhem .
5 we did n't think it was necessary and not necessary at that time , we were success advertising regionally .
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