Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analyses of both Cockburn and Dearlove imply a relationship between business and local government which did not exist at the time and could not easily be generated , whatever the ambitions of civil servants in the departments of central government , or of individual chief executives . |
| 2 | A contract for the sale of unascertained goods may or may not be void because of the fact that certain goods have perished or do not exist at the time of the contract . |
| 3 | In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking . |
| 4 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 5 | Mr Vass said his client had lashed out , in a fight outside a pub , not realising at the time that a bottle in his hand was broken . |
| 6 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 7 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 8 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 9 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 10 | The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods . |
| 11 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 12 | The case , not reported at the time , was the first documented of human victims of this phenonemum in Britain . |
| 13 | The TVOR was not installed at the time of the accident . |
| 14 | But due to other commitments and the very constricted nature of the passage , it was not pursued at the time . |
| 15 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 16 | The resignation of Richardson , then Minister of Justice and National Security , tendered on Sept. 18 for failing to prevent the attempted coup and the ensuing looting , was not accepted at the time by the Prime Minister , with whom Richardson had been held hostage during the crisis . |
| 17 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 18 | In a statement tonight , the Hunt said the hounds were not hunting at the time of incident and were not out of control . |
| 19 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 20 | The net profit margin is lower than forecast due to the increase in interest rates and certain items of expenditure not anticipated at the time of the forecast . |
| 21 | The accused is not guilty of that offence if force or threat of force is not used at the time of the theft . |
| 22 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 23 | Artemidorus of Daldis was not born at the time . |
| 24 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 25 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 26 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 27 | Although it was not appreciated at the time when the Japanese swept away the administration , the power and the remaining claims to sovereignty of the French in Indochina , the Second World War in Asia had entered its final six months . |
| 28 | Actual flight numbers are not known at the time of going to press . |
| 29 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 30 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |