Example sentences of "not until the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 2 | If you are a widow and stop receiving benefit because your children have grown up , you must also start paying the full rate , but not until the beginning of the next tax year . |
| 3 | Not until the beginning of his second administration in 1973 was Nixon able to announce the end of the Vietnam War . |
| 4 | ‘ Not until the day after . |
| 5 | In some of these places direct contact with Cluny was slight , in some it was frequent ; but it was not until the middle of the eleventh century that Cluny began to form an order — a group of houses scattered about Europe owing direct allegiance to her . |
| 6 | It was not until the middle of 1916 that he felt sufficiently confident to offer an olive branch to the employers . |
| 7 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 8 | It was not until the advent of the tank , which simply rolled over barbed wire , that a counter was found to this simple but effective means of halting an attack . |
| 9 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 10 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 11 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 12 | Mr Mates replies that the target date for doing so at Belfast Prison is not until the year 2000 . |
| 13 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 14 | but Caroline 's half term is not until the week after next |
| 15 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 16 | Not until the evening did it come into its own , with the opening of its restaurants . |
| 17 | It was not until the crisis of late August 1939 , when the Nazi-Soviet pact was announced , clearly foreshadowing the impending attack on Poland , that the Labour Party and the movement at large shook off its hostility to the government at least to the extent of supporting , and in the crisis of early September demanding , an early declaration of war . |
| 18 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 19 | Not until the years of fast industrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied . |
| 20 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 21 | Not until the end of 1981 did she begin to fight free of their domination . |
| 22 | INTERNATIONAL Salomon Brothers report predicts recovery for European hotels , but not until the end of 1991 |
| 23 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 24 | It was not until the end of the same year that Henry and Philip of France followed suit . |
| 25 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the Faculty has received a number of responses to the consultative document although the deadline is not until the end of October . |
| 27 | By mid February there were only two B.2s and one PR.3 on strength and it was not until the end of the year that B.2 strength reached a reasonable figure with 25 aircraft . |
| 28 | If Hadow indicated direction and purpose it was not until the end of the Second World War that such ideals would begin to be realised . |
| 29 | Not until the end of the Napoleonic Wars did increased specialization effect a sharp drop in the number of transfers from military to civil service . |
| 30 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |