Example sentences of "[not/n't] at the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They might be wrong , but that does not affect the issue ( not at the time of the bid , anyway ) .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Varna insisted not at the time .
6 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 .
7 I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern .
8 Well , not at the time 'e did n't , nor 'is best man , not for nearly an hour .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later .
14 Not at the time , ’ admitted Dora grudgingly .
15 Not at the time , no , but I 'm , I knew people that were on here , from other places you know , so I met
16 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 .
17 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 …
18 Er not at the time that you did it .
19 Secondly , the machine was not at the time of the contract in a deliverable state , since it still had to be removed from the concrete emplacement .
20 ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’
21 We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system .
22 Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give .
23 Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study .
24 On the facts the accused was guilty at the time when the label was swapped , not at the time when he removed the item from the shelf , intending to switch the label .
25 Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation
26 Not at the time , nor with your body , but with your brain .
27 As far as I know , the all the people who voted er for the amendment , will continue to do so and a great many of of those who voted against it and were quite unaw were not at the time a fully aware of what is proposed , er may well change their mind .
28 We are not at the time of business , we are here to affirm the call !
29 I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ?
30 You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ .
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