Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social services tradition of top-down capital programming , which was not untypical at the time , was replaced by one in which most new services were — at minimum — strongly influenced by a bottom-up CMHT input ; an input characterized by detailed knowledge of people 's real needs , preferences and capacities . |
| 2 | The main set of London University theses for inter-library loan use is housed in the Senate House Library , but access was not possible at the time of the visit . |
| 3 | Had it been severable , i.e. if it had been the sale of separate lots to be separately paid for , then presumably the contract would have been void only as to those lots which were not complete at the time of the contract . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal in Gregory ( 1982 ) 77 Cr App R 41 considered this case to be one of " instantaneous appropriation " , yet Pitham & Hehl does look like a case where the course of stealing was not complete at the time when the defendants got their hands on the furniture . |
| 5 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
| 6 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 7 | Perhaps the highlight of 1924 , but not obvious at the time , was the appointment of 31-year-old C.W. ( Bill ) Pedler of Gerrards Cross as the Club Professional . |
| 8 | The discussion presented has the benefit of hindsight : although each idea appears obvious and in an obvious sequence , most were not obvious at the time they were discovered , the steps were not considered in this order and the overall result does not seem obvious even now . |
| 9 | He found that the circumstances which had arisen were not foreseeable at the time of the contract but he still decided to take into account supervening events : this made the contract unenforceable and unreasonable . |
| 10 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 11 | The Socialists reply that the actions in question were not illegal at the time ( the law on party financing came in later ) . |
| 12 | Excision biopsy and histology were considered for naevi showing change or new naevi not present at the time of the previous photographic session . |
| 13 | To establish this defence the producer must prove that the defect was not present at the time of supply by him . |
| 14 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |
| 15 | The NVC for weeds was not available at the time of writing , but two named communities which are likely to be recognised are : |
| 16 | The NVC for aquatic plants was not available at the time of writing , but see Spence in Burnett ( 1964 ) . |
| 17 | We may test this suspicion by reference to various statements concerning the perceived nature of the new Citizenship Education ( though unfortunately because of frequent postponements of its publication date , the National Curriculum Council guidance document on Citizenship as a cross-curricular theme is not available at the time of writing ) . |
| 18 | BMW 's new 3-series , not available at the time of writing , will be a close match for the Mercedes 190 . |
| 19 | The best system for measuring patient workload will be of little value if the workforce is either not available at the time required or without the necessary skills . |
| 20 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 21 | In this experiment the optimum 60° polar view angle was not used , since suitable support equipment was not available at the time . |
| 22 | Many teachers were simply not available at the time we visited and some who were approached refused to go through the questionnaire with us . |
| 23 | This information was not available at the time of the report in April . |
| 24 | ALTHOUGH it was not apparent at the time , the legal commission of the German athletic federation ( DLV ) may have , in the long-term , bestowed a huge favour on world sport by quashing the four-year suspension imposed on Katrin Krabbe , Grit Breuer and Silke Moller . |
| 25 | A similar fate befell councillors in Liverpool who , although not rate-capped at the time , delayed setting a rate on the grounds that they would otherwise have to make large spending cuts or impose rate rises ( contrary to the ruling Labour group 's manifesto commitments ) to maintain expenditure within the block-grant regime ( Parkinson , 1985 ; Travers , 1986 , especially 164–77 ) . |
| 26 | Here A's mistake is so extraordinary that we are justified in wondering whether he was not insane at the time of the deed , his insanity being an omitted fact . |
| 27 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 28 | Finally , LTP is input-specific , because other inputs that are not active at the time of the tetanus do not share in the potentiation induced in the tetanized pathway . |
| 29 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 30 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |