Example sentences of "not [vb pp] until the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 2 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 3 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 4 | Although accelerators of electrons were used early in this century in pioneering studies of the nature of matter , the precise discipline of electron optics was not developed until the 1930s . |
| 5 | It was October before negotiations reached any resolution and the troops were not withdrawn until the end of the year . |
| 6 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many Roman vault spans were far greater than Gothic ones and were not equalled until the development of steel construction in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 10 | The FIA tribunal wished to consider the matter further and a final decision is not expected until the end of the month at the earliest . |
| 11 | Court proceedings against end-users are not expected until the end of the year . |
| 12 | The first offering , not expected until the end of the year , is a NetWare Loadable Module . |
| 13 | Publication of the report , which could prove somewhat embarrassing for Britain , is not expected until the end of this year . |
| 14 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | If the Circle of Churches could be proved to exist , the implication would be staggering — that hundreds if not thousands of years before history would allow , ancient man had seemingly developed the ability to survey and measure the land with astounding accuracy , accuracy not matched until the dawn of the space age . |
| 18 | Applications shall be considered on behalf of the Senate by the board of the faculty which , in granting leave of absence , may prescribe that the student be required on resumption of studies to repeat any part of the course of study or research , or that the point of resumption be not decided until the time of the student 's return . |
| 19 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |
| 22 | The rules governing payment of UB and DB were changed in April 1991 to reflect the eligibility of part time workers but the Regulations to bring those new rules into effect were not made until the end of December 1992 . |
| 23 | The distinction between ordinary and honours students is normally not made until the third year . |
| 24 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Mr John Cleese , the vertically-unchallenged depressive , revealed he was not deflowered until the age of 24 ; |
| 26 | This order was not countermanded until the early hours of the morning . |
| 27 | Many of the 53 were line engravings such as were commonly taken from existing portraits in oils : the Mercier picture seems , though , to have escaped this treatment and was not copied until the age of the photogravure plate . |
| 28 | The gap between these different approaches , basic to all mass radical parties in an electoral situation , was not closed until the outbreak of war . |
| 29 | ( The veto was not abolished until the foundation of the North German Federation in 1867 . ) |
| 30 | Forced labour was not abolished until the 1940s . |