Example sentences of "was not until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 2 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 3 | Unequivocal though that statement was , it was not until the |
| 4 | It was not until sectorisation in 1983 and the creation by the then InterCity director Cyril Bleasdale of a special department to co-ordinate and develop charter-train operation , that BR began to get its act together . |
| 5 | When Eliot in 1928 , loyally reciprocating services rendered , edited Pound 's Selected Poems , he insisted on excluding the propertius poem , and it was not until 1932 that Basil Bunting wrote , already retrospectively , ‘ In my considered opinion , ‘ Propertius ’ was the most important poem of our times , surpassing alike ‘ Mauberley ’ and ‘ The Waste Land ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 7 | Only towards the end of the 1920s did the central regime start to suppress Belorussian cultural institutions , and it was not until 1933 that general persecution of nationalism became prevalent in the area . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 9 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 10 | Footballers sometimes appeared on a music-hall bill in the late Victorian and Edwardian years but it was not until the inter-war years that top players became ‘ stars ’ . |
| 11 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 12 | It was not until September when she was spotted with Charles on the banks of the River Dee at Balmoral by the royal reporter , James Whittaker , that anyone was any the wiser . |
| 13 | But that was not until 1990 . |
| 14 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 15 | It was not until 5-5 in the second game that Horner settled herself and dug in . |
| 16 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 17 | It was not until 1960 that the gargantuan task of demolishing the attached asylum was undertaken and Forston Manor returned to its original self as though nothing had happened . |
| 18 | The priest 's home was usually near the church , it was not until the eighteenth century when services became more infrequent that it was thought proper for the priest to become established in a big house , perhaps on a distant part of the glebe , and live with much of the dignity of a squire . |
| 19 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 20 | It was not until the political and economic Thatcher revolution of the 1980s , in which the creation of wealth was given priority over its equitable distribution , that a start could be made in reestablishing British influence in world affairs , although this process has been beset with the economic problems of the late 1980s . |
| 21 | It was not until 1974 that his ability to write and perform at his best gelled again , with the release of ‘ Blood on the Tracks ’ . |
| 22 | It was not until the 1960s , when ‘ think-tank ’ entered the popular vocabulary , that these bodies became a natural bridge between universities and government . |
| 23 | As the twentieth century progressed the debate limped on , but it was not until the early 1960s that the tunnel became a serious prospect again . |
| 24 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 25 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 26 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 27 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
| 28 | In an attempt to get away from Lord Rothschild 's stereotype , he trawled the country for new names , although it was not until 1980 that people were able to write in to nominate themselves . |
| 29 | It proved only a partial victory for Parker who had died in 1902 and it was not until 1919 that the first Moderators or de facto bishops were inducted to ensure higher , more uniform standards and greater control from London . |
| 30 | It was not until 1881 that the world 's Methodists held their first Oecumenical Conference in London 's City Road Chapel : the suggestion had come from America . |