Example sentences of "until the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 2 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 3 | They get the ingredients ready but do n't cook until the last minute , preparing the second course while the first is being eaten . |
| 4 | The party is far from sure which message it wants to send to voters , and is likely to leave the choice until the last minute . |
| 5 | The clear message from the budget was that the next general election should be delayed until the last minute , in June 1992 . |
| 6 | He led her on right until the last minute . |
| 7 | Mr Ferguson will give his influential captain , Bryan Robson , until the last minute to prove his fitness from a niggling calf complaint . |
| 8 | A notable feature of the campaign has been a large number of ‘ do n't knows ’ , with many people waiting until the last minute before deciding how to vote . |
| 9 | He admits to cashflow forecasts ‘ always late , early , or wrong ’ , not warning of problems until the last minute , and having an overdraft which is higher than it should be . |
| 10 | Usually , there is no communication between the two until the last minute , and then a long-winded procedure begins in which the empty listed building must be offered to every other part of the organization ( most of which self-evidently will not want it ) ; and while the papers sit in in-trays the repair bill escalates into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 11 | In all cases , you would be wise to avoid waiting until the last minute . |
| 12 | Try the following two fillings ( they can both be prepared a day in advance and refrigerated ) , but wait until the last minute before filling the choux buns to prevent the pastry going soggy . |
| 13 | Until the last minute I was revising our document , often making significant alterations , and ringing up members of the Group for their assent . |
| 14 | Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’ |
| 15 | But you have to dive through the waterfall without seeing the pool until the last minute . |
| 16 | UNTIL the last minute , the election on May 1st to fill the Senate seat vacated by Lloyd Bentsen when he went to the Treasury had generated almost no interest in Texas . |
| 17 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |
| 18 | Slater echoed industry doubts about Intel 's commitment to the unsuccessful device , which Olivetti was going to use to build a workstation until the last minute when it scrapped the whole project in favour of DEC 's Alpha ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 19 | After the decidedly international Warburg Conference of 1990 , at which even this Department was not much in evidence , we regarded the Panofsky conference as a challenge to us to act independently not least because we could not be sure of financial support until the last minute . |
| 20 | Keep the chocolate-coated varieties in the fridge until the last minute as the chocolate covering quickly softens . |
| 21 | The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany . |
| 22 | Do n't put off your writing until the last minute and then panic . |
| 23 | But if you leave your preparation until the last minute , you 'll almost certainly panic and reduce your chances of scoring high marks on the day . |
| 24 | ‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’ |
| 25 | Aurangzeb 's musketeers held their fire until the last minute , then discharged their entire artillery . |
| 26 | I would n't get dressed until the last minute because I thought I would be late and therefore would not have to go to school . |
| 27 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 28 | Until the last minute Gould was dealing orders nineteen-to-the-dozen . |
| 29 | You see in traditional sales we do n't tell people the price until the last minute . |
| 30 | Negotiations continued , until the last minute , but the Town team were adamant and the organisers ruled that Jodi was ineligible . |