Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 2 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 3 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 4 | ‘ Just wait until the single European market . ’ |
| 5 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 6 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 7 | Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away . |
| 8 | In 1970 the ideal of free and equal competition was actually far from realised : the movement of people , goods and capital around the Six faced numerous impediments , and genuinely ‘ free ’ movement on the EC was not finally planned until the 1990s . |
| 9 | Even so , the implications of this theory for old stars and other massive bodies were not generally realized until the 1960s . |
| 10 | The term ‘ mass media ’ itself was not widely used until the 1960s . |
| 11 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 12 | I usually wait until the next day when the painting is thoroughly dry , when it will accept the light colour perfectly . |
| 13 | Fortunately , in-foal mares usually ‘ do ’ well and will not cost more to feed until the last three months . |
| 14 | Horses were still used until the 1950s on some canals and can still be seen today pulling some trip boats . |
| 15 | The crossing keeper 's box complete with track plan still existed until the late 1940s . |
| 16 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 17 | It began when a respected local historian , Norman Scarfe , claimed in the East Anglia Daily Times that , in the rumour-filled summer of 1940 when Britain faced an imminent Nazi invasion , a War Office file on the evacuation of the civilian population from the hamlet was mysteriously sealed until the next century . |
| 18 | In 1933 fertility was the lowest ever recorded until the 1970s . |
| 19 | The first two years of study there will normally involve between three and six subjects rather than the one , two or three typical of the English university , and specialization does not really begin until the third year of the honours course . |
| 20 | In Egypt , where everything depended on the Nile , the coronation of a new pharaoh was often postponed until a new beginning in the cycle of nature provided a propitious starting-point for his reign . |
| 21 | Plans for NeXTStep 486 were revealed at NeXTWorld Expo back in January ( UX No 370 ) , and the environment was to have gone into beta test in June : that wo n't now happen until the New Year . |
| 22 | The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event , when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen . |
| 23 | First , the hours : business in the chamber starts , except on Fridays , at 2.30pm and can often last until the small hours of the morning — resulting in tired ( and tired as a newt ) legislators . |
| 24 | The outcome had remained finely poised until the last months of Henry 's reign , when the conservative cause was seriously damaged by the actions of Norfolk 's son , the Earl of Surrey . |
| 25 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 26 | More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe . |
| 27 | Well done Matt , well done , better doing it now then wait until the last bloody minute when we 're outside the school |
| 28 | Work by other engineers was obviously germane to the investigation of geomorphological processes but was not fully appreciated until the 1960s . |
| 29 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 30 | We unpacked our bags , and then relaxed until the next morning . |