Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Into the power-vacuum created by the slaying of Osric and Eanfrith stepped Eanfrith 's brother , Oswald , who slew Cadwallon in the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ near Hexham in the autumn of either 634 ( if Eadwine was killed in 633 ) or 635 ( if Eadwine did not perish until 634 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) , and assumed the kingship of both the Deirans and the Bernicians ( HE 111 , 1 , 2 ) . |
| 2 | Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago , when the planet was 45 . |
| 3 | Because of the prosecution of his early pamphlets the complete edition of the ‘ Books of Nameless Love ’ could only be sold underground and did not appear until 1913 . |
| 4 | Royal Brass commemorative horse-brasses did not appear until Victorian times and , in any case , the shape can not be described as traditional . |
| 5 | The report of this body , which did not appear until 1909 , contains a most thorough discussion of British social policy at that time . |
| 6 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 7 | This would explain why single-celled organisms appeared 3500 years ago , but complex creatures such as mammals and reptiles did not appear until 500 million years ago . |
| 8 | An advertisement was placed in the Northampton Mercury and two London newspapers ( the Bedford Mercury did not appear until 1837 ) . |
| 9 | Specialists organised themselves earlier — the American College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians were formed in 1913 and 19l5 respectively , while the Academy of General practice did not appear until 1947 — and , despite the recommendations of the Mills Commission and the Willard Committee in 1963 and 1964 for more broadly trained physicians , there was little response from the medical schools ( Stephen 1979 , p.266 ) . |
| 10 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 11 | Although all the necessary knowledge was available by 1918 , the first operational computer did not appear until 1946 . |
| 12 | The promised War Risk Compensation Scheme did not appear until 19 February 1915 and their Lordships seemed to have forgotten altogether that under the Merchant Shipping Act the moment a ship became a total wreck , from whatever cause , the wages of its crew ceased to be paid , leaving both sailors and their dependents in " an unenviable position " . |
| 13 | The delay meant the team , which was based 20 mile from the resort , did not arrive until 2½ hours later . |
| 14 | The delay meant the team , which was based 20 mile from the resort , did not arrive until 2½ hours later . |
| 15 | Thus it did not finish until two o'clock in the morning … |
| 16 | They met in 1968 and began to cohabit in 1969 , although they did not marry until 1978 . |
| 17 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 18 | In fact , too , he was still in London when Sea Change was first given there on 28 September ; the other company did not leave until five days after that . |
| 19 | In 1939 he went to work in the shipyards and did not leave until 1947 . |
| 20 | The fighting did not end until 1980 . |
| 21 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 22 | In fact the expected invasion of Aquitaine did not materialize until some time after Henry had sailed to England in June . |
| 23 | The cat did not return until late afternoon . |
| 24 | Allitt was off-duty and did not return until 3 April when there was ‘ an odd incident ’ , said Mr Goldring . |
| 25 | There were comparatively few incomers and they were dispersed among the native population ( estate building for incomers did not peak until 1976 , and none existed before 1974 ) . |
| 26 | The PKI was banned and did not re-emerge until 1946 . |
| 27 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 28 | The State did not exist until 120 years ago . |
| 29 | But those circumstances did not arise until four years later , when I was not with my immediate family all the time , but away at boarding-school , the Malory Towers of my dreams . |
| 30 | But the 200 miles separating them meant they did not meet until six months into the romance when Chris , 25 , came to see Heather , 32 , of Aberdeen Road , Darlington . |