Example sentences of "[not/n't] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music of the words is there to be used — but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content . |
| 2 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 3 | We were not at the end . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bulk of sales of dailies and periodicals here is not at the news stands , but via annual subscriptions which normally have to be renewed by 1 October . |
| 6 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 7 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 8 | A few seconds later the pipes are assembled and I enter the town playing Highland Laddie , not at the front of the column , but bringing up the rear . |
| 9 | At the start of NEP experienced Bolsheviks were not at the editorial helm of central and especially local newspapers . |
| 10 | Economic recovery is not at the top of the political agenda in African countries today . |
| 11 | From the outside people may say she has married into such and such a descent group but this does not mean that she is also not at the same time the wife of a particular man . |
| 12 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 13 | Otherwise , if the oil is not at the right temperature , you end up boiling the food rather than deep-frying it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not opposed to specialisation , but certainly not at the tender age of 16 . ’ |
| 15 | Milan Tomsa , the student strike leader at the Prague Film School , is not at the moment much concerned about the future prospects of the Czech cinema . |
| 16 | ‘ Not at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 18 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 19 | They might be wrong , but that does not affect the issue ( not at the time of the bid , anyway ) . |
| 20 | They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well . |
| 21 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 22 | We have considered a topic which is , perhaps regrettably , not at the centre of Anglican attention . |
| 23 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 24 | And pension rights begin immediately , not at the end of any bloody eighteen month period . |
| 25 | Important deaths come in special news flashes , or as the first item , not at the end . |
| 26 | Discovery was inevitable and when it came at last there were reasons to rejoice , but not at the reunion with Christopher . |
| 27 | Yet is it not at the foot of the Cross that the theology of Joshua 6 falls and dies ? |
| 28 | Why should this penalty be mandatory , and not at the discretion of the court as in other offences ? |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |