Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 2 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 3 | Say what you like about the Ryder Cup and The Belfry , if it was n't for the 9th , 10th and 18th holes , it would be as average as it looks . |
| 4 | It was n't until the mid-16th century that corks began to appear again . |
| 5 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 6 | It was n't until the next day someone heard him shouting and came to his rescue . |
| 7 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 8 | The police did n't inform the British Consulate about Jeremy 's disappearance until October 30 , and it was n't until the next day that the consulate contacted Jeremy 's grandmother in England . |
| 9 | Smith and Steve Mardenborough both limped off and it was n't until the 62nd minute that the home keeper was tested by a 25-yard floater from Mitch Cook . |
| 10 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |
| 11 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 12 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 13 | It was not until the 17th century that Swanage became a port for tone . |
| 14 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 15 | But it was not until the twentieth century that these policies proved effective . |
| 16 | Although the Caucasus was then part of Russia , it was not until the mid-20th century that its borders were defined and political stability was achieved . |
| 17 | It was not until the nineteenth century and the work of Pierre Janet that anyone even began to consider the subject of regression . |
| 18 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |
| 19 | So successfully indeed did the Bishops of Saintes oppose the claims of their rival that it was not until the seventeenth century that La Rochelle was allowed to have a cathedral of its own . |
| 20 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 21 | It was not until the last decade of Nicholas 's reign that a Governor of Eastern Siberia began recommending a forward policy in northern China , and not until the accession of Alexander II that he gained the ear of the tsar . |
| 22 | The priest 's home was usually near the church , it was not until the eighteenth century when services became more infrequent that it was thought proper for the priest to become established in a big house , perhaps on a distant part of the glebe , and live with much of the dignity of a squire . |
| 23 | However , horns were generally seen as desirable , especially for harnessing plough oxen , and it was not until the eighteenth century that Scottish farmers began to breed selectively for the polled factor in order to make the cattle of Galloway easier to manage on the long droves to the London markets . |
| 24 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the history of the Shorthorn became clearly recorded . |
| 25 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the word Champagne became synonymous with the sparkling wine of the region . |
| 26 | It was not until the eighteenth century that the Roman road was re-used and became important as a through route . |
| 27 | The principles of electromagnetism had been established by the late eighteenth century , but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that any sort of measurements could be made of the small currents produced by living tissue . |
| 28 | Notts County and Manchester City failed to make a vital breakthrough during the first half of their tie , it was not until the ninetieth minute that Notts County of the second beat Manchester City with a goal from Lund . |
| 29 | Oriental rugs were probably brought into Spain by the Moorish invaders during the 11th and 12th centuries , but it was not until the 14th century that Italian merchants , trading with Anatolia ( Turkey ) and the Near East , introduced them into most of Europe . |
| 30 | But it was not until the fourteenth century , when Christian monotheism had really taken root among the people , that the people of Europe had evolved sufficiently to develop a widespread mystical tradition of their own . |