Example sentences of "not [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinnock is resolutely of his place — principled , passionate , sentimental — and , by that token , he is not for these times . |
| 2 | ‘ No , Clive , ’ she screeched at him , ‘ it 's not for last time . |
| 3 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 4 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 5 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 8 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 9 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 10 | ‘ Not for some time , Chieh Hsia . |
| 11 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 12 | Not after last time . ’ |
| 13 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |
| 14 | In 1944 – 46 de Gaulle confronted the hard reality that a man of character could lead the nation singlehandedly in a moment of supreme crisis but not in normal times . |
| 15 | For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . ’ ( v. 20/21 ) . |
| 16 | Opium was probably known in Roman if not in Greek times , and was used to promote sleep as well as to relieve pain . |
| 17 | Not in this time of perestroika . ’ |
| 18 | Cards are valid for one year except those issued to over 60 year olds ( who are not in full time employment ) which are valid for life . |
| 19 | Rubato means not in strict time . |
| 20 | It was not until some time later that the drawings were found to have been stolen . |
| 21 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 22 | It was not until some time around the 18th century that it was firmly back where it is now . |
| 23 | Yet nearby landowners had little option other than to tolerate the threat to law and order which the existence of open villages implied because the closed parishes to some extent relied upon the open ones to provide a pool of reserve labour which could be used during periods of peak demand like harvest , but which would not at other times become a charge on the poor rate . |
| 24 | Landsat images of a given area will therefore always be taken at the same local solar time and not at varying times throughout the day , thus maintaining a constant direction of illumination . |
| 25 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 26 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 27 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 28 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 29 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |
| 30 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |