Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it sounds funny now , it was not so at the time . |
| 2 | Under the system , created by West Germany 's Manfred Donike , the amount of steroids in an athlete 's body can be detected not only at the time the test takes place , but several months beforehand , although the actual drug is not identified . |
| 3 | Exercise raises the metabolic rate , not only at the time of activity , but also for a little while afterwards . |
| 4 | The hidden curriculum may transmit messages not only about the time perspective of tasks , but about identification with them , and in particular the non-identification that is implied by the idea of scepticism . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that the hospital do n't want you to have any visitors — not just for the time being . |
| 6 | Such socialising had significance not just at the time but for the future , for table-fellowship was , in Jesus ' thinking , an anticipation of that great feast which will mark the consummation of the Kingdom . |
| 7 | Child care manager Lucy Wheatley said : ‘ It is not usually at the time of the miscarriage that the woman suffers but several months later . ’ |
| 8 | Child care manager Lucy Wheatley said : ‘ It is not usually at the time of the miscarriage that the woman suffers but several months later . |
| 9 | I know that the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) was not here at the time , and he will not be with us much longer , but many Members who are present tonight were here then . |
| 10 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 11 | The cost of this story was very high , not least for the time , materials and manpower needed to build the ‘ giant ’ sets and props ( the sink , the telephone , the briefcase , the lab bench , etc. ) , all of which had to be robust enough for the regular cast to clamber around . |
| 12 | Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so . |