Example sentences of "not [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not like the end of the world . |
| 2 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 3 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 4 | But he will not in the end tolerate injustice and unfair treatment on either side . |
| 5 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 6 | To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself . |
| 7 | Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest . |
| 8 | Not until the end of 1981 did she begin to fight free of their domination . |
| 9 | INTERNATIONAL Salomon Brothers report predicts recovery for European hotels , but not until the end of 1991 |
| 10 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 11 | It was not until the end of the same year that Henry and Philip of France followed suit . |
| 12 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Faculty has received a number of responses to the consultative document although the deadline is not until the end of October . |
| 14 | By mid February there were only two B.2s and one PR.3 on strength and it was not until the end of the year that B.2 strength reached a reasonable figure with 25 aircraft . |
| 15 | If Hadow indicated direction and purpose it was not until the end of the Second World War that such ideals would begin to be realised . |
| 16 | Not until the end of the Napoleonic Wars did increased specialization effect a sharp drop in the number of transfers from military to civil service . |
| 17 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 18 | It was not until the end of May that Boldwood was brave enough to declare his love . |
| 19 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union officially accepted the invitation , but it was not until the end of January that Mikoian 's imminent arrival ( on 4 February 1960 ) was announced . |
| 21 | It was not until the end of the Victorian period , when electric trams provided cheap public transport , that new working class suburbs could be built out of town and away from the vicinity of the workplace . |
| 22 | Polish international Janusz Gora is wanted by West Bromwich Albion but not until the end of the season . |
| 23 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 24 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |
| 25 | Consequently , people concentrate on how they do things not on the end results . |
| 26 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah , cos we 're not to the end of Feb yet are we ? |
| 28 | yeah I would think so nights or days I would of thought nothing 's been really said about what 's happening on that yet , not till the end of towards the end of the |
| 29 | We were not at the end . |
| 30 | And pension rights begin immediately , not at the end of any bloody eighteen month period . |