Example sentences of "[was/were] not [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not at the end . |
| 2 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 3 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 4 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 5 | It was not until the end of the same year that Henry and Philip of France followed suit . |
| 6 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 7 | By mid February there were only two B.2s and one PR.3 on strength and it was not until the end of the year that B.2 strength reached a reasonable figure with 25 aircraft . |
| 8 | If Hadow indicated direction and purpose it was not until the end of the Second World War that such ideals would begin to be realised . |
| 9 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 10 | It was not until the end of May that Boldwood was brave enough to declare his love . |
| 11 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union officially accepted the invitation , but it was not until the end of January that Mikoian 's imminent arrival ( on 4 February 1960 ) was announced . |
| 13 | It was not until the end of the Victorian period , when electric trams provided cheap public transport , that new working class suburbs could be built out of town and away from the vicinity of the workplace . |
| 14 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |