Example sentences of "not until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 2 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 3 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 4 | Unequivocal though that statement was , it was not until the |
| 5 | It was not until sectorisation in 1983 and the creation by the then InterCity director Cyril Bleasdale of a special department to co-ordinate and develop charter-train operation , that BR began to get its act together . |
| 6 | Not until 1833 , when the Anchor brewery took over Steward and Head 's brewery in neighbouring Stratford , did Charrington 's start brewing porter and stout . |
| 7 | When Eliot in 1928 , loyally reciprocating services rendered , edited Pound 's Selected Poems , he insisted on excluding the propertius poem , and it was not until 1932 that Basil Bunting wrote , already retrospectively , ‘ In my considered opinion , ‘ Propertius ’ was the most important poem of our times , surpassing alike ‘ Mauberley ’ and ‘ The Waste Land ’ . ’ |
| 8 | East resigned , Rowlands returned , but not until the junior vice-president , Rhys Williams , had tendered his resignation . |
| 9 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 10 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 11 | Not until 1926 did servicing catch up with urgent repair needs . |
| 12 | Not until the years of fast industrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied . |
| 13 | Not until the spring and summer of 1989 when , for the first time , the Thatcher government showed clear signs of frailty , with electoral defeats , economic difficulties , and internal acrimony which recalled the later years of Macmillan 's government in the early 1960s , did the critics begin to regain their confidence . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 15 | Not until the end of 1981 did she begin to fight free of their domination . |
| 16 | Not until two years had passed was the outcome of these disputes at all clear . |
| 17 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 18 | Not until now have we realized how much we had missed birds . |
| 19 | Footballers sometimes appeared on a music-hall bill in the late Victorian and Edwardian years but it was not until the inter-war years that top players became ‘ stars ’ . |
| 20 | Not until recently did the West Sussex County Council wish to encourage the development of tourist-related activities in parts of the county other than the Channel coast , but a change in policy , provoked by the recognition of the potential of the rural hinterland for attracting tourists , allowed the new owner of the wharf warehouse to contemplate its conversion into a guest house and family dwelling because the project became eligible for grant aid from the English Tourist Board . |
| 21 | A favourable review did appear , but not until a year later . |
| 22 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 23 | INTERNATIONAL Salomon Brothers report predicts recovery for European hotels , but not until the end of 1991 |
| 24 | It was not until September when she was spotted with Charles on the banks of the River Dee at Balmoral by the royal reporter , James Whittaker , that anyone was any the wiser . |
| 25 | But that was not until 1990 . |
| 26 | Not until Wednesday , that is , when his speech on the privatisation of government property services was interrupted by Labour 's Tam Dalyell , another Old Etonian baronet . |
| 27 | She added : ‘ Our next election is not until 1992 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was not until 5-5 in the second game that Horner settled herself and dug in . |
| 30 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |