Example sentences of "and [be] not [verb] until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain and Portugal applied in 1977 and were not admitted until 1986 . |
| 2 | Extension of the grounds for divorce took even longer to enact and was not achieved until 1937 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the governors supported their doctors ; the Bedford Union subscription to the infirmary was discontinued , and was not resumed until some ten years later . |
| 4 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 5 | Perhaps because of its futuristic design or perhaps through slow fund-raising , the bridge took many years to complete and was not opened until 1823 which must , to say the least , have been highly inconvenient . |