Example sentences of "until it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 2 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 3 | Push the pipe into the fitting until it meets the internal stop . |
| 4 | This little bubble of unreality has since expanded until it enfolds the entire Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis , with all the technology and all his minions at Prince 's beck and call . |
| 5 | It gradually descended and changed in colour , until it became a blue-grey mist seething over the heads of the musicians , almost as if the sweat generated by their exertions was steaming in cold air above them . |
| 6 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 7 | This would lead to balance of payments problems , or in the event of the establishment of EMU , the progressive impoverishment of the UK until it became a poor region of the EC . |
| 8 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 9 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 10 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants . |
| 12 | Blend together and gradually add the roe alternately with about 300ml/½ pint of olive oil until it forms a thick paste . |
| 13 | Luxury sorbet with strawberry coulis Blend together strawberries with a little icing sugar in a good processor until it forms a smooth purée . |
| 14 | Increase heat until it turns a golden caramel . |
| 15 | Make a cast of this with a suitable filler , remove it from the mould when set , and clean it with a file and glasspaper until it matches the original moulding . |
| 16 | The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end . |
| 17 | Otto Werner , formerly of the Bundesanstalt fur Materialprüfung , Berlin , published analyses in 1970 which showed that in very general terms the amount of zinc in the brass increased with time until it reached a natural maximum of about 28 per cent . |
| 18 | Faster and faster the Wheel trundled , a whirling fiery hoop , until it reached an artificial mound at the cliff edge and was deflected up into the air . |
| 19 | Duregar 's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass . |
| 20 | Montgomery sipped his coffee appreciatively and allowed his gaze to wander round the cool green room until it reached the languid man draped in the chair opposite . |
| 21 | The final alignment began at Haifa Bay , passed overland through the Jezreel and Bet Shean Valleys , and followed the Jordan Rift Valley southwards until it reached the northern shore of the Dead Sea . |
| 22 | On general principles relating to assignments of choses-in-action , a transfer of a debenture should be an equitable assignment only , until it becomes a legal assignment when the company receives notice of it . |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to withdraw all Government funding for that organisation until it sends a clear message to young people about drugs — ’ No , no , and no ’ ? |
| 24 | The process can be modelled by taking a balloon filled with water and pushing a finger in at one point until it touches the other side . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm tired … do n't want a wash , ’ he mumbled , leaning his small sturdy figure against her , and twisting both hands into his dark hair until it made a tangled mass . |
| 26 | Until it opened the only fun was stealing cars , fighting and smashing things up . |
| 27 | TAKE a piece of fish , cook for 20 minutes until it has a wood-like texture , marinate for two days in soy sauce and sesame oil , then serve . |
| 28 | This may involve a narrowing of consciousness , a division of awareness into a more- and a less-focal area , a widening of consciousness until it has no especial object , or a flickering of consciousness when steady attending is for some reason precluded . |
| 29 | Their basic proposition was that we tend to organise and simplify incoming information until it makes a satisfying pattern . |
| 30 | Glucose in dilute solution in sap-water thus passes through internal passages in the plant until it reaches a growing cell . |