Example sentences of "until a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought , I know what my idea of heaven would be , if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity : a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing , destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart , light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor , and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly , with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion … |
| 2 | [ Until a member of the cast the sound down , " Coriolanus " continues . ] |
| 3 | In the event of an emergency i.e. receptionist delayed , EDT will hold the lines until a member of the reception staff takes over . |
| 4 | Process , gradually adding water until a ball of dough forms . |
| 5 | The and ratios , plotted against the maturity of the unheated coals ( Fig. 5 ) , show that the composition of the Palaeozoic coal gas remains constant until a reflectance of 1.2–1.3% and only becomes drier at higher maturities . |
| 6 | I am waiting until a head of my wife is dry before sending you — with the ones you know about — four canvases . |
| 7 | If you 're so desperate to marry again please wait until a lady of the proper class comes along . |
| 8 | Despite official denials , the decision was seen as a riposte to the United States government which on July 29 had suspended travel visa applications from Cubans until a backlog of 28,000 applications had been processed . |
| 9 | The RAF says it ca n't comment until a board of inquiry reports back . |
| 10 | What I could see was a thoroughly unsatisfactory situation whereby large elements of the medical profession remained profoundly hostile to government policy until a change of government should take place . |
| 11 | Take Leave chearfully of all your Friends in Newgate : Mount the Cart with Courage : Fall on your Knees : Lift up your Eyes : Hold a Book in your Hands although you can not read a Word : Deny the Fact at the Gallows : Kiss and forgive the Hangman , and so Farewel : You shall be buried in Pomp , at the Charge of the Fraternity : The Surgeon shall not touch a Limb of you ; and your Fame shall continue until a Successor of equal Renown succeeds in your Place . |
| 12 | This remained the principal activity in the London money market for over a hundred years , until a wave of innovation hit the market in the late 1960s . |
| 13 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 14 | His head was drenched in a moment , but he stayed there until a flash of lightning made him withdraw . |
| 15 | But until a majority of Germans , and not just their chancellor , decide how far Europe 's interests are worth defending , the Bundeswehr will be hobbled . |
| 16 | Until a couple of days before the price was announced Warburg was working towards a Fr70 price , and only pushed this up to Fr72 ( 707p ) when it saw how strong demand was . |
| 17 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 18 | Up until a couple of years ago his name had been Peter Manstead . |
| 19 | I did n't like The Beatles or the Stones until a couple of years ago , 'cos that used to be drummed into me when I was growing up . |
| 20 | He lasted about ten days ; through the week prior to the Open and until a couple of days before the tournament began . |
| 21 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 22 | Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops . |
| 23 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 24 | UNTIL a couple of years ago , your wife 's investment income would have been taxed in your name , so any entitlement to a refund would have depended on your income and tax allowances . |
| 25 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 26 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 27 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 28 | Will the Minister say this evening whether the Government intend to implement , if not immediately , at least in the very near future , those sections of part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 that prevent the surrender of a disposal licence until a certificate of completion has been isssued by the relevant authority ? |
| 29 | Long-distance travel is a fever dream where time and mood slip out of control leaving one unexpectedly early or late delighted or depressed until a mosaic of tiny things builds a flat earth beneath you again . |
| 30 | It can not be expressed too strongly that the most beneficial results are obtained from pursuing the treatment until a return of symptoms occurs . |