Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if some did , the answer was No — or Not for more than a week . |
| 2 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 3 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 4 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 5 | It was not until 1935 that a geologist on the Scottish staff was appointed to supervise petrographical work in Scotland . |
| 6 | However , it was not until 1966 that a committee under Lord Fulton was appointed to ‘ examine the structure , recruitment and management , including training , of the Home Civil Service ’ . |
| 7 | However , numerous difficulties were encountered and it was not until 1961 that a relatively successful programme budgeting system was introduced into the US Department of Defense by the Rand Corporation . |
| 8 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 9 | The first Rottweiler in Norway arrived in the year 1910 , but it was not until 1919 that a bitch called Florrie , who had been originally imported from Sweden , was registered . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was not until 1956 that a Brazilian made any impact when Nano da Silva Ramos finished 5th in his Gordini in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 11 | Other well-known ornithologists followed , including such notable personages as the then Duchess of Bedford , but it was not until 1948 that a ‘ proper ’ bird observatory was established by the late Dr George Waterston . |
| 12 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |
| 13 | These criticisms continued to be levelled at the many standard forms produced in 1963 , but it was not until 1980 that a number of new forms appeared , the lengthy gestation period reflecting the difficulties in satisfying the disparate interests of the constituent members of the Joint Contracts Tribunal . |
| 14 | It was not until 1964 and a great deal of nagging on my part that the regulations were changed to require flight data recorders to be carried . |
| 15 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 16 | This structure survived a further three decades , until 1961 , when it was subsumed by the General Practice Division ; and although the Building Surveyors Panel of the General Practice Committee gave evidence of their dissatisfaction with the syllabus structure to the Eve Committee in 1967 , it was not until 1973 that a Building Surveying Division re-emerged as an identifiable entity . |
| 17 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 18 | In Italy , Giuseppe Garibaldi , had campaigned for the unification of his country for many years , gaining Venice from the Austrians , and established Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy , but it was not until 1870 that a march on Rome overpowered the French and Papal troops , and establish a united Italy with Victor Emmanuel as King in residence , in July 1871 . |
| 19 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 20 | It was not until 1920 that a Third Division of twenty-two southern clubs was formed , with another of twenty-two northern clubs the following year . |
| 21 | It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in . |
| 22 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 23 | It was not till 1906 that a post as instructor at the École de Guerre gave him an opportunity . |
| 24 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |
| 25 | But it was n't until 1983 that a simple protest brought the controversy into particularly sharp focus . |
| 26 | But it was n't until 1984 and a Manpower Services project that the Teifi dream began to see reality , with the old station site at Henllan midway between the original Llandsyl Newcastle Emlyn alignment chosen as headquarters . |