Example sentences of "[verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 2 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 3 | The complete interior of the house could not be occupied until the final months of 1985 and the owners stayed for only one further year before the challenge of converting a local barn tempted them away ! |
| 4 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 5 | The WinServer boxes will ship with up to six 50MHz Intel Corp 80486 parts until 60MHz Pentiums become generally available — volume deliveries of WinServers are n't expected until the fourth quarter . |
| 6 | No further hostilities occurred until the late afternoon . |
| 7 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 8 | Margolis , in a similar study , found that there was an initial build-up of citations which occurred until the third year after publication . |
| 9 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 10 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 11 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 12 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 13 | Few members of his own party believe the prime minister can survive until the next general election , due in 1992 . |
| 14 | I did n't know until the other day . |
| 15 | It 's easy to control , including the scheduling aspects — you can delay a fax send until a specific time , sending all your faxes for one day after 6pm , say , in order to take advantage of off peak telephone rates ( or after midnight , if you have a midnight line ) . |
| 16 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that six local people have had to go private to avoid waiting and 40 remain on the waiting list with no prospect of being considered until the next financial year ? |
| 17 | I stopped until an urgent , ‘ Go on , lass , go on , you 're doin' fine , ’ from the organist prompted the next line . |
| 18 | He said it was a tactical kind of game , a bit like ‘ a friendly form of warfare ’ where the game was never won until the last shot . |
| 19 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
| 20 | Civil aviation , along with monetary and tariff policies , control over Middle East oil , and the continuation of Britain 's rubber trade , was a subject of considerable Anglo-American rivalry in terms of protectionism versus competition that was not resolved until the postwar period . |
| 21 | These were exemplified in the Government 's Broadcasting Bill which became law last October , but in reality can not be resolved until the next century . |
| 22 | But whereas the submarine pens were re-opened within four days in 1918 , after the St Nazaire raid this dry-dock was not repaired until the 1950s — one reason perhaps why the British were not popular with all the townsfolk for many years afterwards . |
| 23 | Ridiculous as a bride on her clichéd honeymoon , she must wait until the accepted hour . |
| 24 | Not everyone should wait until the standard age to retire . |
| 25 | The advisers involved in any due diligence exercise should report to the investors regularly , outlining any problems that they are encountering ; they should not wait until the final publication of their report . |
| 26 | But that could wait until the following day . |
| 27 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 28 | ‘ I gathered you all wanted to meet me , so it seemed a bit unkind to make you wait until the following morning … ’ |
| 29 | The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind . |
| 30 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |