Example sentences of "until the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viscount Nigel-Constantine and the elderly Bishop Hugh of Lisieux waited until the agreed time and took ship , with decorum and in an atmosphere of surprising goodwill . |
| 2 | Then Clan Douglas established their dynasty , and until the present day , the Douglas family , in their various departments , have played a major part in shaping Scotland 's story . |
| 3 | Over most of the Zechstein basin , burial has continued until the present day but at some localities the carbonates have been uplifted , exposed and even eroded . |
| 4 | Since that distant time the Runefangs have served the counts of the Empire , having passed from ruler to ruler until the present day . |
| 5 | His work is explained , defended , and substantiated in numerous journals and other publications dating from 1966 until the present day . |
| 6 | Everyone accepted that the jurisdiction existed in both cases , and there was never any necessity until the present day to distinguish between the two types of jurisdiction . |
| 7 | Pipes can be made from the branches for music , possibly the origin of the Pan-pipes , and throughout Europe it was an important and much used plant until the present day . |
| 8 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 9 | The principle of less eligibility has continued to influence decisions about relief until the present day . |
| 10 | It effectively initiated a programme of council-house building that has continued , albeit subject to regular modification as governments have changed the subsidy arrangements , until the present day . |
| 11 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 12 | This chapter contains summaries of the principal findings and recommendations of some of the major official reports on education and related topics from 1944 until the present day . |
| 13 | Through further interviews , observations and documentary research it will seek to establish householders ' senses of entitlement and obligation in relation to other households and how these have changed from before Communist rule until the present day . |
| 14 | Figure 9.1 shows the pattern of demographic transition for Great Britain in ‘ snapshots ’ from 1851 until the present day . |
| 15 | A 15ft long bronze sculpture on the wall next to the store entrance depicts the history and main occupations of the people of Frome from the late seventh century until the present day . |
| 16 | That was the end of his Test career until the present tour of England , for which he was chosen after doing well as an allrounder in Pakistan domestic cricket . |
| 17 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 18 | But these changes through the birth rate remained relatively modest in this country until the present century . |
| 19 | This hidden wonderland , sculptured in darkness absolute , remained unseen and unsuspected through the ages until the present century when men first ventured into rifts in the ground and beheld in the light of torches an amazing display of sculptured limestone in patterns both incredibly delicate and massive , a living museum of art in many forms . |
| 20 | From medieval times until the present century Saltash has held jurisdiction over these waters . |
| 21 | Until the present century water transport was of great importance in the fens and the lock at Jesus Green was the highest on the River Cam and gave access to Quayside . |
| 22 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 23 | Zelinsky 's description of the South as ‘ so distinct from the non-South in almost every observable or quantifiable feature and so fiercely jealous of its peculiarities ’ ( p. 122 ) , at least until the present century , suggests a place with a clearly identifiable culture of its own , even though it is large and , on many criteria , heterogeneous . |
| 24 | In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land . |
| 25 | I read an article on Cizek 's school in Vienna — the apparent chance of reading that one article has arranged my life since then , until the present moment . |
| 26 | and Forteshegh ) to Forsey , the form in which it has stayed in and around the small area where the estate lay , close to Bridport , until the present time . |
| 27 | to delay the implementation of the new structure until the present time as requested by NALGO to allow greater consultation ; |
| 28 | As the Chancellor 's friends should know , the Government have been warned every year — from the days of Mr. Vredeling until the present time — that additionality is essential , and that this country is breaking the rules . |
| 29 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Until the nineteenth century , for example , bottlenose dolphins occurred in all the major estuaries in Britain , including the Thames and the Humber . |