Example sentences of "not at the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jokers said much about Sixties London , still swinging but not at the pace depicted by the media . |
| 2 | We arrived very late and , through some misunderstanding , Gilbert was not at the station to meet us . |
| 3 | The pressure might help but not enough to make commercial fusion , not at the level to create measurable heat . |
| 4 | In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater … |
| 5 | Foaled in 1975 and humbly bred , John Henry changed hands three times before reaching Dot and Sam Rubin 's Dotsam Stables ( Sam Rubin bought the horse unseen over the phone , and did not at the time know that his new purchase was a gelding ) . |
| 6 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 7 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 8 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 9 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 10 | These included higher-than-average proportions of women , pensioners , people in lower socio-economic groups , people not at the moment using credit ( although prepared to ) and — as might be expected — people admitting to a poor understanding of interest rates . |
| 11 | Not at the moment thank you , I think I 've really had |
| 12 | We can not at the moment reconstruct with certainty what the ordering of relevant environments in EModE might have been , or whether it was always nasals that were decisive : as Lowland Scots preserves evidence of a raising rule before dentals/alveolars ( for example in glad , gather , Saturday ) , it is not impossible that hendes , bend attest to pre-dental raisings . |
| 13 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 14 | Indeed these three banks have special opportunities for widening the credit horizon of people who do not at the moment have bank accounts . |
| 15 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 16 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 17 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |