Example sentences of "not [verb] until [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The cost of unsold or unconsumed stocks will have been incurred in the expectation of future revenue , and when this will not arise until a later year it is appropriate to carry forward this cost to be matched with the revenue when it arises . |
2 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
3 | The tenders were not received until the following week . |
4 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
5 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
6 | Although accelerators of electrons were used early in this century in pioneering studies of the nature of matter , the precise discipline of electron optics was not developed until the 1930s . |
7 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |
8 | But whereas the submarine pens were re-opened within four days in 1918 , after the St Nazaire raid this dry-dock was not repaired until the 1950s — one reason perhaps why the British were not popular with all the townsfolk for many years afterwards . |
9 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
10 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
11 | Civil aviation , along with monetary and tariff policies , control over Middle East oil , and the continuation of Britain 's rubber trade , was a subject of considerable Anglo-American rivalry in terms of protectionism versus competition that was not resolved until the postwar period . |
12 | The advisers involved in any due diligence exercise should report to the investors regularly , outlining any problems that they are encountering ; they should not wait until the final publication of their report . |
13 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
14 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
15 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |
16 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
17 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
18 | The inflated snobbery of purchasing a ritual traditionally reserved for those of a higher social rank did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century ; conversely , it was a dissatisfied middle class which , towards the close of the nineteenth century , ushered in a less complicated and confusing street procession . |
19 | Consequently the vast majority of contests were not decided until the second round on March 18 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |
22 | The distinction between ordinary and honours students is normally not made until the third year . |
23 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
24 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
25 | Separate provision for young disabled adults did not emerge until the early 1980s , when a group , known as Contact , was formed to provide a more comprehensive facility than existing services . |
26 | The presence of shallow marine sediments of Late Cretaceous age indicate that the region was below sea level at this time and it apparently did not emerge until the Early Cenozoic . |
27 | This order was not countermanded until the early hours of the morning . |
28 | Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) . |
29 | Forced labour was not abolished until the 1940s . |
30 | Real improvement in margins would not occur until the 1993/4 trading year . |