Example sentences of "not [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided that the population is not trapped at a local optimum , and provided there is at least some genetic variation in the appropriate direction , the optimal life history will eventually be reached . |
| 2 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 3 | ‘ Not called at a bad moment , have I ? ’ |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal held that the notice was not incorporated in the contract , since it was not displayed at a spot visible to plaintiff before she made the contract . |
| 5 | Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle ! |
| 6 | They have not arrived at a favourable view of the monarchy because the balance sheet falls in the black . |
| 7 | Our armed forces policy was to be phased in over 10 years , not introduced at a stroke , as the hon. Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) appears to think . |
| 8 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 9 | " Table meal " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning a meal eaten by a person sitting at a table or other structure which serves the purpose of a table and is not used for the service of refreshments for consumption by persons not seated at a table or structure serving the purpose of a table , which definition repeats the definition given by the 1962 Act . |
| 10 | those which are not directed at a specific military objective ; |
| 11 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |
| 13 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 14 | you do n't christened at a baptist church |
| 15 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |