Example sentences of "not [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood that , after all the fanfare and ultimatums , it is not going to happen , or at least not for the time being , is another boost for the ‘ rebel ’ general in his lonely defiance of Lebanon 's Muslims — indeed , a good many of its Christians , too — much of the Arab world , and international communities . |
| 2 | ‘ Not for the time being . ’ |
| 3 | In this case , in fact , it has not proved necessary to move to the next stage of passing a statute , at least not for the time being . |
| 4 | ‘ Uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ means a zebra crossing at which traffic is not for the time being controlled by a police constable in uniform or by a traffic warden . |
| 5 | Not for the time being . |
| 6 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 7 | Critical of the US deployment , the Soviet Union would not for the time being join an international force , but would consider how to respond if the UN Security Council decided on military action . |
| 8 | He could n't really complain too much ; not after the time that he 'd run his patrol car into a ditch only three weeks into his new appointment , and the Middlemass girl ( 14 ) had turned up with a chain and towed him out . |
| 9 | For three days there has been smoke , not like the time before . |
| 10 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 11 | Erm so that is and what we 're doing is to try and recreate the appearance of the house as it was not in the time when the canons had it , but when William had it because we know a lot about him and his family and also we know more about the furnishings of that period . |
| 12 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 13 | For example in a database containing the full text of literary works , each work will be protected in its own right and the duration of protection for that work will be based on the life of the author plus fifty years , or in the case of an Act of Parliament ( subject to Crown Copyright ) 125 years from the end of the calendar year during which it was created , and not from the time it was entered into the database . |
| 14 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 15 | They might be wrong , but that does not affect the issue ( not at the time of the bid , anyway ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 19 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 20 | I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern . |
| 21 | Well , not at the time 'e did n't , nor 'is best man , not for nearly an hour . |
| 22 | There is a six-year Statute of Limitations which relates to the period from the date at which the competing claim was first asserted ( not at the time the work of art was stolen nor the date of subsequent sale ) . |
| 23 | Buyers place great emphasis on the reliability of supply and the ability of the supplier to maintain quality during transit : quality is judged in the market , not at the time of despatch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 26 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 27 | ‘ Not at the time , ’ admitted Dora grudgingly . |
| 28 | Not at the time , no , but I 'm , I knew people that were on here , from other places you know , so I met |
| 29 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 30 | 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 … |