Example sentences of "[vb pp] until [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WinServer boxes will ship with up to six 50MHz Intel Corp 80486 parts until 60MHz Pentiums become generally available — volume deliveries of WinServers are n't expected until the fourth quarter . |
| 2 | He said it was a tactical kind of game , a bit like ‘ a friendly form of warfare ’ where the game was never won until the last shot . |
| 3 | These were exemplified in the Government 's Broadcasting Bill which became law last October , but in reality can not be resolved until the next century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 6 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The distinction between ordinary and honours students is normally not made until the third year . |
| 8 | Many MPs suspect no announcement on the decision will be made until the last day before the summer recess to avoid a Parliamentary row . |
| 9 | Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | The distinguished archaeologist Professor Lord Renfrew , member of English Heritage 's own Ancient Monuments Advisory committee , revealed that its opinion had not been sought until the third week of November when it finally was called for a formal meeting with Jocelyn Stevens . |
| 11 | ‘ It appears nothing can be done until the next round of bids which are not out until later this year after the general election . |
| 12 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 13 | She had a deep gash to her leg , probably inflicted with an axe and severe internal injuries , though these were n't noticed until the next day . |
| 14 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
| 15 | This will avoid any delay in making payment to you , otherwise this might be missed until the next reconciliation of the travel accounts . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The entrance to the School from Buxton Road had to be closed until the 19th while an unexploded bomb in Corbar Road was dealt with . |
| 18 | Again , as discussed in the Introduction , medieval towns continued to be founded until the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Cardinal Tisserant suddenly announced that further voting on religious liberty would be postponed until the next session , claiming the document now before the Council was so different from what had gone before it needed to be debated all over again . |
| 21 | ‘ Cathay Pacific waited until all the other airlines ’ flights had left before announcing their flight was to be postponed until the next day . |
| 22 | January 's figures reflected the fact that the month had fewer business days , so some bankruptcies might have been postponed until the next month , the analysts said . |
| 23 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 24 | The emergency staff had realised at 5 a.m. on Thursday 7 July that dialysis patients were at special risk from the aluminium , but the house of Robert Hill , a local man with kidney failure and a dialysis machine , was not contacted until the next day . |
| 25 | Popular consciousness of PR had been limited until the last week of the campaign , underlining the argument that , while constitutional reform is popular among the chattering classes , it is not popular among the mass of voters . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Branson was fully aware that even if the Americans decided to grant permission , it was likely that it would not be given until a day or two before the flight — retaliatory treatment for the way the British government had delayed until the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute permission for People Express to fly into Britain . |
| 29 | The clear message from the budget was that the next general election should be delayed until the last minute , in June 1992 . |
| 30 | Postmasters could , and did , ensure that priority was given to the letter advising of these developments which was intended for their own particular political friend in London , and that his enemies ' letters would be delayed until the next post . |