Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 2 | It was not until the first half of the fourteenth-century that Azzone Visconti reinforced the structure with walls . |
| 3 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 4 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 5 | However , Merrow who had already been relegated , put up a spirited display and it was not until the second half that Haslemere gained any real control . |
| 6 | It was not until the second half of the eighteenth century that any systematic excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon site , a cemetery , took place . |
| 7 | It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that houses for the rural working class really began to improve . |
| 8 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 9 | It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism . |
| 10 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 11 | It was not until the last note of the closing music had died away that Bella clicked off the set . |
| 12 | the point is Liverpool spent er ninety minutes over in Italy and forty five minutes in Anfield to penetrate their defence , it was n't until the second half last night that they got anywhere near through , through , through the solid block of the defence |
| 13 | Their first album , 1980 's ‘ Who 's Been Talking ’ did badly , due to record company finance problems , and it was n't until the second LP , ‘ Bad Influence ’ , that the praise started pouring in . |
| 14 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |
| 15 | You mean it was n't cos the last lot was n't washed up ? |
| 16 | One day he was there and the next day he was gone . |