Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are . |
| 2 | It will not improve with time . |
| 3 | Second or tertiary shoots will grow but the crop will be reduced and the fruit may not ripen in time . |
| 4 | Our afternoon lessons began at a quarter-to-two , and if the express did not run on time , I ran the risk of being late for roll call . |
| 5 | She nearly did not remember in time , because the similarity was such an unlikely one and she was hunting for pictures of hatred . |
| 6 | The driver can not react in time to the child running unexpectedly into the street . |
| 7 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 8 | In only 13 days , Nijinsky 's shattered nerves could not recover in time for the Champion Stakes . |
| 9 | Despite valiant efforts by our physiotherapists , my hamstring did not recover in time for the 200 metres . |
| 10 | The giant Eales , the undisputed No 1 line-out specialist in world rugby , will be replaced by the inexperienced Garrick Morgan after finally conceding his shoulder injury would not recover in time . |
| 11 | Note that the components of eqn ( 4.11 ) do not depend on time , and so the Schwarzschild metric is static . |
| 12 | He may be naturally drawn towards a discovery of a state which does not depend on time and space for its reality , but the medium of the imperfect world into which he is born means that : Such knowing and feeling , the mystics say , is given in response to a process — an ordering of the drives in human nature so that they can be expressed as love . |
| 13 | Perhaps it 's as well that we no longer have death by hanging in this country — otherwise those last-minute reprieve calls from the Home Secretary might not happen in time … |
| 14 | ‘ Or coming , can not enter in time ? ’ |
| 15 | In particular , the area of the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , could not decrease with time . |
| 16 | This model , as indicated earlier , makes three assumptions : that ability is unidimensional ( a trait ) ; that item difficulty is independent of the other items in the test ; that item difficulty is independent of the student i.e. it does not vary with the different learning experiences of students and hence it does not vary over time . |
| 17 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 18 | The refugees kept in the camps face many crises of diet ; not only is it not balanced in some cases , but it may also not arrive on time , causing disease and death . |
| 19 | After the demise of the telegram , loyal greetings are sent with one white rose via a commercial flower delivery service , but the reply does not arrive in time for lunch any more . |
| 20 | The vagaries of travel to Orkney , however , including the fact that the scheduled flights were all booked up with journalists , meant he could not arrive in time for the ten o'clock start . |
| 21 | This was a shade different to his mood three days ago , when his clubs were left at Heathrow Airport and did not arrive in time for him to compete in Wednesday 's pro-am . |
| 22 | Now Xi does not change with time ; it is the initial position of the particle . |
| 23 | A useful feature of such dynamic spectra is the isosbestic point , which is a point where the total absorbance does not change with time , although the absorbances at points on either side do change as the concentrations of reagents and products evolve . |
| 24 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 25 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 26 | Diagrammatically , the expectations hypothesis is given by the horizontal line in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 27 | This backwardation relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 28 | The contango relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( again assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 29 | Some things do not change despite time . |
| 30 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |