Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] until the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 2 | The corrective operation could not be undertaken until the child was three months old , and the doctor recommended that the child should be allowed to stay at the hospital until she was due for surgery , her condition producing difficulties in feeding . |
| 3 | The practicalities of service of the Summons , entering appearance , lodging Defences and so forth , are usually such that consideration of tactics can not be undertaken until the Adjustment Period is fixed . |
| 4 | In addition to these cuts , a moratorium was placed on the spending of certain funds , in the Administration , Finance and House budgets , the expenditure of which could be delayed until the income situation had clarified . |
| 5 | Medical opinion believed that early breast milk ( antigen-rich colostrum ) was harmful , and that feeding should be delayed until the passage of the first stools . |
| 6 | Without sufficient information , a selection decision should be delayed until the book has appeared . |
| 7 | Payment of some ( say , half ) of the proceeds may be delayed until the vendor has completed his or her side of the bargain and delivered the relevant shares . |
| 8 | It was given a qualified welcome by Donald Riegle and Henry Gonzalez , the ( Democrat ) chairmen of the Senate and House banking committees respectively , who stated that an extension of bank operations into financial services should be delayed until the implementation of the supervisory and deposit insurance reforms , the latter being expected to attract widespread public opposition . |
| 9 | Although strictly speaking the company is responsible for the cost of materials immediately the order is placed , the normal procedure is for costing to be delayed until the invoice has been checked and approved for payment . |
| 10 | This is because it assumes that only one of the candidates in each position is correct , so the assignment of scores to words has to be delayed until the maximum for any given position is known . |
| 11 | It is difficult to give precise guidelines but it is now our practice to recommend that oral iron be given until the haemoglobion concentrations and red cell counts are normal , and that these are remeasured at about three monthly intervals for a year and further iron given as necessary . |
| 12 | The ‘ too fast ’ signal should not be given until the glider is well up into the climb and putting a load onto the cable . |
| 13 | Long , expanded drills should not be given until the student has mastered the shorter , minimal structures , because the expanded drills are based on the minimal ones . |
| 14 | To ensure this happened , permission for phase II of the development , a further twenty-eight flats , was not to be given until the house had been restored . |
| 15 | Although bonuses on a life policy can not be realised until the termination of the policy , life companies will normally lend money to clients against the security of those bonuses , quickly and at very competitive rates of interest . |
| 16 | The Chinese side had ordered that construction be halted until the project received China 's approval , saying that China had not been consulted on the matter , and expressing concern that it would place a financial burden on the new government after 1997 . |
| 17 | The distance can then be adjusted until the diameter of the ring of refracted light is exactly twice that of the shadow ; the distance from the lens to the paper is then numerically equal to the focal length . |
| 18 | Because his ennoblement could not be ratified until the Dragon Throne was formally occupied , Alexei was not permitted to vote . |
| 19 | Surely all poll tax cases should be stopped until the matter has been sorted out . |
| 20 | The question of whether a plaintiff 's claim is time-barred by the Limitation Act does not fall to be considered until the point has been pleaded by the defendant , at which stage , if appropriate , the plaintiff may make an application for a direction under s33 ( Kennet v Brown [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 582 ) . |
| 21 | It is also worth noting that efficiency should not be considered until the effectiveness is proven , the procedure could be doing the wrong thing in an extremely efficient manner . |
| 22 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 23 | A council spokeswoman said : ‘ There is an ongoing investigation which can not be resolved until the mother returns and can be interviewed by both social services and the police . ’ |
| 24 | After treatment the store should be ventilated until the chlorine smell has dispersed . |
| 25 | If at first this proves too difficult , an alternative method of grabbing the ankles may be substituted until the area becomes more stretched and flexible with use . |
| 26 | Mandarins should not be added until the tank is well established . |
| 27 | It should be noted that no modules will be deleted until the module version deletion process has been able to run through the whole LIFESPAN database . |
| 28 | That is why there will be no amnesty , and those people will be pursued until the moment that they pay up . |
| 29 | The facts were that Chetnik constructed two warehouses under a consent granted under the London Buildings Acts 1930–1939 , the consent being subject to a condition that the buildings should not be occupied until the consent of Tower Hamlets had been obtained to the proposed user . |
| 30 | They insisted their project had a backer but there were commercial reasons why the details could not be revealed until the deal was finalised . |