Example sentences of "[not/n't] [subord] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 2 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 3 | However , Merrow who had already been relegated , put up a spirited display and it was not until the second half that Haslemere gained any real control . |
| 4 | It was not until the second half of the eighteenth century that any systematic excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon site , a cemetery , took place . |
| 5 | It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that houses for the rural working class really began to improve . |
| 6 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 7 | It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism . |
| 8 | But these four stations on the African continent aimed their programmes exclusively at white settler communities ; not until the Second World War was wireless broadcasting for Africans established . |
| 9 | It was not until the first half of the fourteenth-century that Azzone Visconti reinforced the structure with walls . |
| 10 | At the close of yesterday 's hearing , the court reserved judgment on the two appeals and gave leave for Mr Crook to pursue the third — but not until the first judgment had been given . |
| 11 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 12 | ( Not until the twentieth century was the office of prime minister to be mentioned in a statute . ) |
| 13 | The Lords ' remaining authority was in practice to be removed in consequence of the 1867 Reform Act , though not until the twentieth century was the House forced formally to accept its diminished status . |
| 14 | It is not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that the shrouded effigy appears as the central sculptural feature on funerary monuments . |
| 15 | It was not until the last note of the closing music had died away that Bella clicked off the set . |
| 16 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 17 | Not until the third level of understanding is reached are Christian presuppositions seen as certain ( the suit ‘ fits ’ ) ; and not until the fourth level are they accepted as final and chosen as personal ( the suit is paid for ; it belongs ) . |
| 18 | Not until the third bomb ( the one that exploded at too low an altitude ) were we were issued with anti-flash suits and goggles . |
| 19 | It is not until the third verse , that the tramp is mentioned again . |
| 20 | Not until the twenty-first century is the proportion of the elderly expected to grow again . |
| 21 | Not until the third level of understanding is reached are Christian presuppositions seen as certain ( the suit ‘ fits ’ ) ; and not until the fourth level are they accepted as final and chosen as personal ( the suit is paid for ; it belongs ) . |
| 22 | Not until the 11th stage between Strasbourg and Mulhouse are there any major climbs . |
| 23 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 24 | The answer 's never , not since the first baby come . |
| 25 | Not since the Second World War had Congress remained in session so close to election day , and with mid-term elections on Nov. 6 rapidly approaching , a compromise budget was at last finally agreed . |
| 26 | In the long tale of Hungarian literature , not since the sixteenth century has the poet been able to avoid political issues ; they so dominated life . |
| 27 | You mean it was n't cos the last lot was n't washed up ? |
| 28 | the point is Liverpool spent er ninety minutes over in Italy and forty five minutes in Anfield to penetrate their defence , it was n't until the second half last night that they got anywhere near through , through , through the solid block of the defence |
| 29 | Their first album , 1980 's ‘ Who 's Been Talking ’ did badly , due to record company finance problems , and it was n't until the second LP , ‘ Bad Influence ’ , that the praise started pouring in . |
| 30 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |