Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 2 | The cost of unsold or unconsumed stocks will have been incurred in the expectation of future revenue , and when this will not arise until a later year it is appropriate to carry forward this cost to be matched with the revenue when it arises . |
| 3 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
| 5 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
| 6 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 7 | Although accelerators of electrons were used early in this century in pioneering studies of the nature of matter , the precise discipline of electron optics was not developed until the 1930s . |
| 8 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 9 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |
| 10 | But whereas the submarine pens were re-opened within four days in 1918 , after the St Nazaire raid this dry-dock was not repaired until the 1950s — one reason perhaps why the British were not popular with all the townsfolk for many years afterwards . |
| 11 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 12 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 13 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
| 14 | Civil aviation , along with monetary and tariff policies , control over Middle East oil , and the continuation of Britain 's rubber trade , was a subject of considerable Anglo-American rivalry in terms of protectionism versus competition that was not resolved until the postwar period . |
| 15 | The advisers involved in any due diligence exercise should report to the investors regularly , outlining any problems that they are encountering ; they should not wait until the final publication of their report . |
| 16 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 17 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 18 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |
| 19 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
| 20 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 21 | The inflated snobbery of purchasing a ritual traditionally reserved for those of a higher social rank did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century ; conversely , it was a dissatisfied middle class which , towards the close of the nineteenth century , ushered in a less complicated and confusing street procession . |
| 22 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 23 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 24 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |
| 25 | The distinction between ordinary and honours students is normally not made until the third year . |
| 26 | ‘ Just wait until the single European market . ’ |
| 27 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 28 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Separate provision for young disabled adults did not emerge until the early 1980s , when a group , known as Contact , was formed to provide a more comprehensive facility than existing services . |