Example sentences of "not [vb infin] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division between planning conditions and site licence conditions highlights the need for co-operation between planners , waste disposal officers and other pollution control agencies , at a pre-planning stage wherever possible , in order to reach agreement on those conditions which are to be attached to the planning consent , and those to be attached to the site licence , thus ensuring that problems of control do not arise at a later stage . |
| 2 | Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day . |
| 3 | Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 4 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 5 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 6 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 7 | KPMG would not comment at the recent agm . |
| 8 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 9 | The Whites had vast total forces but the separate forces did not attack at the same time . |
| 10 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 11 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 12 | In a fixed date action , if the defendant has not delivered a defence within the time limited , or in any action where the defendant does not appear at the pre-trial review ( or preliminary arbitration appointment ) , evidence by affidavit is admissible without notice unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(2) ; Ord 19 , r 5(2) ; Term No 2 ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 14 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 15 | He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei . |
| 16 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 17 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 18 | The first is whether in construing ambiguous or obscure statutory provisions your Lordships should relax the historic rule that the courts must not look at the Parliamentary history of legislation or Hansard for the purpose of construing such legislation . |
| 19 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 20 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 21 | Coffin did not look at the severed hands , where he imagined the signs of a fight would show . |
| 22 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
| 23 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 24 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 25 | The sequence was still largely without dates , and more importantly , the development from one broad technological phase to another did not occur at the same time everywhere . |
| 26 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 27 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you might not balk at a straight proposition . ’ |
| 29 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for ‘ potential terrorists ’ on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport ? |
| 30 | The outside world could not guess at the disturbing cross-currents . |