Example sentences of "not in [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Alan was not in bed at nine o'clock ; he was watching the news with Geraldine . |
| 2 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 3 | ‘ In a maul when the ball becomes unplayable or the maul stationary , the team not in possession at the start will put the ball into the ensuing scrummage . |
| 4 | As trespass is an interference with possession , it follows that if the plaintiff were not in possession at the date of the alleged meddling , he can not sue for trespass . |
| 5 | Where , however , the plaintiff was not in possession at the time of the conversion but relied on his right to possession jus tertii could be pleaded by the defendant . |
| 6 | held that a general charge on the undertaking of a company applied to all its ships , whether or not in existence at the time of its creation . |
| 7 | Prima facie the rules against perpetuities applies to the grant of easements over things not in existence at the date of the lease . |
| 8 | Section 5(2) states that the trade description shall be taken as referring to all goods of the class , whether or not in existence at the time the advertisement is published . |
| 9 | But the old false syllogism , " English Literature is printed in books : books are in libraries : therefore the English teacher should be the school librarian " , overlooks those sections of the stock that are scientific or concern number , those sections of the stock that are not in English at all , and those sections of the stock largely in pictorial form — quite apart from the service of the library to history , geography , sociology , crafts , and other subject departments , and the usefulness of non-book formats to all comers . |
| 10 | Except in the eases of applications for the renewal or permanent transfer of licences , a licensing board may decline to consider an application where the applicant or his representative are not in attendance at the meeting at which the application is to be considered ( subs . |
| 11 | Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability . |
| 12 | However , a general trade embargo would not be effective and would require international support , which is not in prospect at present . |
| 13 | This is the kind of frame from which Dorothy Heathcote often ( increasingly ) wants children to work , and this is why it often seems to be the case in her work that the pupils are not in role at all — they are merely required to look at something from a particular scientific perspective . |
| 14 | Adequate safety measures stipulated by the Indian government were not in place at the time of the accident , according to the documents , which state that the accident was due to " sheer negligence " . |
| 15 | Ah , but he is n't — he 's not in television at all . |
| 16 | Table IV shows that children who recovered were similar to both groups of children who did not in age at follow up , years of follow up , and frequency of day or night wetting . |
| 17 | When asked in 1983 to conduct a similar investigation of the purported Hitler diaries of 1932 and 1935 , Grant found that high grade waste paper containing an optical brightening agent had been used in the pulp and these were not in use at the alleged time . |
| 18 | Equally well , rather than disappoint you , the assistant may say ( hat the item is not in stock at present but may be in next week — after several weeks of returning to ask about it , you may suddenly realize that the item never is coming in . |
| 19 | ‘ We were n't in love at all . |
| 20 | He was n't in residence at the college now and had a small flat in Gloucester . |
| 21 | And light suddenly hit her eyes and she halted , blinked , and only then became conscious that Ven was n't in danger at all . |
| 22 | That is the two hundred million that I was referring to er , earlier , was n't in place at the time that we made our write there . |
| 23 | We exchanged the broken vase for a similar one from a guest cabin that is n't in use at present and we swapped the screen . ’ |