Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish church , Holy Trinity , was not built until 1862 and the feast predates that by at least 200 years . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 3 | Although there had been fulling mills along the river for several centuries , the first industrial age mill was not built until 1790 . |
| 4 | The first European motorways were built in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s ; the UK had active plans to follow them , but these were shelved on the outbreak of war , and the first British motorway was not built until 1958 ( the Preston bypass ) . |
| 5 | Although planned earlier , it was not built until 1844 by which time the Farmer 's Bridge to Salford Junction section of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was hopelessly congested with 24 hour/day , 7 day/week working . |
| 6 | Final monetary union was not implemented until forty years later , after the foundation of the German Empire , when the Reichsmark was adopted in 1875 . |
| 7 | Part 2 of the National Insurance Act authorized technical retraining schemes for adults , but this was not implemented until 1925 . |
| 8 | The high turn-out — 79 percent of the 93,367 electorate — meant the count took longer than expected and the result was not declared until just before 3 a.m. on Friday . |
| 9 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 10 | Agreement on withdrawal was not reached until early 1929 . |
| 11 | A complex settlement of this problem was not reached until January 1983 , when Britain effectively got one-third of the fishing quotas . |
| 12 | A final settlement of the British problem was not reached until the June 1984 Fontainebleau summit , when a rebate system effectively halved the net contribution . |
| 13 | In 1864 the ‘ Kington and Eardisley ( extension to Presteign ) Act ’ was passed , ( i.e. this line was planned before the PCBCR ) but as mentioned above , Presteigne was not reached until 1875 . |
| 14 | The peak in our schools was not reached until 1983 ( Table 1 ) nevertheless the subsequent drop has matched that in the state sector . |
| 15 | According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then . |
| 16 | The Royal Company of Archers , based in Edinburgh , better known as the Monarch 's Bodyguard in Scotland , was not formed until 1676,193 years after the Kilwinning Society , but as they have had a continuous existence also , they can claim to be the oldest archery company in Scotland . |
| 17 | This is because the British Boxing Board of Control ( BBBC ) , the governing body of the sport , was not formed until 1929 and quite openly barred non-whites from challenging for British titles until 1948 . |
| 18 | Information on the nature of public support for the SDP throws a certain amount of light on these kind of questions because the party was not formed until 1981 . |
| 19 | A unit of radiation dosage , the ‘ roentgen ’ , was not defined until 1928 , and it took time for it to be universally accepted . |
| 20 | Documentation from the customer shows however that the order was not recorded until June 1991 . |
| 21 | The world , spiritual and material , was not saved until Constantine . ’ |
| 22 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 23 | The first neutrons detected were generated by a solar flare on 21 June , 1980 , although the satellite data was not analysed until later . |
| 24 | However , there were no further developments during the remaining life of the trams and the road was not widened until 1967 . |
| 25 | The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love . |
| 26 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
| 27 | After about a mile , a humped-backed bridge crossed the L.B.S.C. Railway and the road entered the old township of Mitcham , then still part of the Croydon Rural District , which was not disbanded until 1914 . |
| 28 | The black trade was not ended until 1807 , but after 1800 was offering small returns . |
| 29 | The song , properly known as the ‘ Song of the Western Men ’ , was not sung on the road : it was not written until two centuries later , by the eccentric Parson Hawker of Morwenstow , ( in the intervals between scaring his parishioners by dressing as a mermaid and singing on the seashore ) . |
| 30 | It is doubtful if this could be the case if he used Mark as his main source as that Gospel was not written until about 65 AD . |