Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 2 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 3 | And if some did , the answer was No — or Not for more than a week . |
| 4 | It was not until 1935 that a geologist on the Scottish staff was appointed to supervise petrographical work in Scotland . |
| 5 | Example continued It 's not until 1992 that the giant wakes up and tries to dig his way to the surface . |
| 6 | However , it was not until 1966 that a committee under Lord Fulton was appointed to ‘ examine the structure , recruitment and management , including training , of the Home Civil Service ’ . |
| 7 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 8 | But it was not until 1974 that the establishment of the so-called public service obligation grant marked acceptance of the notion that the railways , though necessary on social grounds , could not hope to pay their way . |
| 9 | The first Rottweiler in Norway arrived in the year 1910 , but it was not until 1919 that a bitch called Florrie , who had been originally imported from Sweden , was registered . |
| 10 | It was not until 1868 that every train travelling more than 20 miles ( 32 km. ) without stopping had to have an efficient means of communication with the guard and driver . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was not until 1956 that a Brazilian made any impact when Nano da Silva Ramos finished 5th in his Gordini in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 12 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
| 13 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 14 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 15 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 16 | This structure survived a further three decades , until 1961 , when it was subsumed by the General Practice Division ; and although the Building Surveyors Panel of the General Practice Committee gave evidence of their dissatisfaction with the syllabus structure to the Eve Committee in 1967 , it was not until 1973 that a Building Surveying Division re-emerged as an identifiable entity . |
| 17 | In France it was not until 1986 that the surplus on the balance of trade in manufactured goods on extra-trade was insufficient to offset the deficit on intra-trade . |
| 18 | In Italy , Giuseppe Garibaldi , had campaigned for the unification of his country for many years , gaining Venice from the Austrians , and established Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy , but it was not until 1870 that a march on Rome overpowered the French and Papal troops , and establish a united Italy with Victor Emmanuel as King in residence , in July 1871 . |
| 19 | Chantler noted , however , in 1952 , that ‘ the current investment review has been even more fantastic than its predecessors if that were possible ’ , and it was not until 1953 that the Treasury had worked out a new system of investment control . |
| 20 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 21 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |
| 22 | Besides , it was not until 1921 that the country Iraq was defined and created by the British in the context of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 23 | It was not until 1881 that the world 's Methodists held their first Oecumenical Conference in London 's City Road Chapel : the suggestion had come from America . |
| 24 | It was not until 1972 that the idea of star and planet systems forming from other stellar material came into vogue , when Wilbur Brown of Wyoming University said that such systems were formed from the ejected shells of supernovae . |
| 25 | But its boom in popularity was still a selective one — probably due to the fact that it was not until 1830 that the transport of Champagne in bottles became legally permitted . |
| 26 | ICI began to research meat alternatives in the 60s , but it was not until 1985 that the company could put finished products on the shelf . |
| 27 | It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in . |
| 28 | It was not until 1946 that the French departed from Lebanon and Syria , spitefully shelling Damascus and killing 500 Syrians as they did so . |
| 29 | It was not until 1990 that the share of the GDP going to the welfare state began to show a small rise . |
| 30 | It was not till 1906 that a post as instructor at the École de Guerre gave him an opportunity . |