Example sentences of "[verb] until [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 2 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 3 | She would not cry here ; she would wait until after the wake , when she was alone . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it is not clear from current Marxist criticism and theory , which in the rainbow coalition is often buttressed by Lacanian ideas of the decentred self , whether it is prepared to accept any form at all of a personal , subjective or affective response , or whether all that must wait until after the revolution . |
| 5 | What I 'm getting at is there 's no reason why we need , we should wait until after the surveys to start looking at trips . |
| 6 | As regards the timing of the announcement , the Directors , in consultation with Unions and personnel professionals , decided that those affected would want to know immediately rather than wait until after the Christmas holiday to be told . |
| 7 | Her courage and consideration were so remarkable that even close friends did not know until near the end that she was seriously ill . |
| 8 | However , McCallen will not know until after a stewards meeting tomorrow morning whether or not he will be on the front row of the grid . |
| 9 | A NAFTA agreement was not expected until after the November 1992 US presidential elections . |
| 10 | Although a decision on the application was not expected until after the completion of the single internal market in December 1992 , the Maltese government announced that it was preparing to become an EC member within the next five years . |
| 11 | Although progress on the application was not expected until after the creation of the single European market at the end of 1992 , the Cyprus government introduced measures to modernize the island 's tax system and impose a value added tax ( VAT ) . |
| 12 | In spite of efforts to give some semblance of fair treatment to the ordinary sailor ( the most notable was the passage of Grenville 's Navy Act in 1758 ) no radical improvement in the methods or rate of payment was made until after the mutinies of 1797 . |
| 13 | The few Communists , Fascist and Stop-the War candidates who ignored the truce were badly defeated until towards the end of the war when the newly formed Commonwealth began to win seats which might otherwise have gone to the Labour Party . |
| 14 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 15 | Mr Collin said this year 's poll tax bills will not be prepared until after the Budget tomorrow . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the FA said yesterday that the final ticket allocation would not be decided until after the LiverpoolPortsmouth replay next Monday night . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Nothing will be decided until after the match against Lithuania . |
| 18 | The Mexican Minister of Commerce and Industrial Development , Jaime Serra Puche , accepted that legislative proceedings on the final treaty would probably not be completed until after the November 1992 US elections . |
| 19 | On the resumed hearing the justices made an order in terms different from those agreed in that the girl 's contact with her older half-sister was to be supervised and the prohibition of contact between the girl and her father was expressed to continue until after the review by the local authority six months later . |
| 20 | This was delayed until after the rest day , taking much of the heat out of the situation , and a public hand-shaking by the two players concluded the issue . |
| 21 | Police acknowledgement that this had n't actually happened was delayed until after the press coverage . |
| 22 | Just as interesting perhaps is to visualise the landscape that would have been created if enclosure had been delayed until after the introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s . |
| 23 | Greater competition would require less regulation , but that will have to wait until after the election . |
| 24 | As these retirements were taking effect around Easter , I felt it better to wait until after the Easter celebrations before making any appointments . |
| 25 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 26 | Although serious research on the subject of mobbing did not begin until around the time of the Second World War , it has been known as a natural phenomenon for over 2,500 years . |
| 27 | A modest upturn in rig move activity did not occur until towards the year end and competition was aggressive . |
| 28 | It wo n't keep until after the weekend , but it 'll be alright t today . |
| 29 | The Panama canal was not opened until after the outbreak of war in 1914 , but may stand for the completion of the world sea communications system . |
| 30 | Although I do put details of funeral arrangements in will in connection with buried or cremated , in practice it 's much better that you tell your intending executors what 's intended , because sometimes the will is n't even opened until after the funeral . |