Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | No gathering of the clan was really gathered properly until Richard arrived , sartorially plumed and bearing the news from Aix to Brent . |
| 2 | It would seem that the old wall did not finally disappear altogether until the eighth-century , well after the city had been devastated by the Goths . |
| 3 | Her marriage had continued to slide downhill until eventually , after being evicted from the house , she divorced my stepfather for persistent cruelty , and took a job as the live-in caretaker of a seedy block of flats . |
| 4 | She gave him all that she knew — chiefly from conversations with her close friend , Jane Aldis , and from a small book on physiology belonging to her father which she read secretly until it was removed . |
| 5 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 6 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 7 | So prices are inflated and will remain so until there is a steady flow of imported goods . |
| 8 | These universally fatal chronic brain infections of mammals ( including humans ) are untreatable and will remain so until more is known about this unique agent . |
| 9 | At present the use of colonic motility tests in clinical practice is limited and will remain so until normal ranges for colonic pressures can be defined and more effective treatments for the various motility disorders identified . |
| 10 | Despite all the fine statements that young people are the future of the country , they are still a disadvantaged group and will remain so until they are made a priority policy target . |
| 11 | The risks and benefits of adding intravenous heparin to aspirin and thrombolysis are unknown and will remain so until trials are done to address this question adequately . |
| 12 | He still insisted that he alone was responsible to the French people for the actions of his government and would remain so until general elections could be held . |
| 13 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 14 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 15 | Once a surface is disinfected it tends to remain so until used . |
| 16 | This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . " |
| 17 | Zak himself was calling everyone back into the dining room , saying they should all stay together until we reached Sudbury , which would be soon . |
| 18 | Simmer gently until reduced . |
| 19 | Simmer gently until apple has softened . |
| 20 | Reduce heat and simmer gently until liquid is absorbed and peas are tender , about 25 minutes . |
| 21 | Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently until cooked . |
| 22 | Rose thought the girl had n't been eating enough until she unclasped the bracelet and discovered the pus-stained square of lint beneath . |
| 23 | No behavioural intervention can be designed properly until ABC analysis has been carried out for the problem behaviours under scrutiny . |
| 24 | ‘ She comes in first thing , but steer clear until about nine o'clock so I can have a chance to explain things . ’ |
| 25 | Jack 's fists clenched slowly until his knuckles stood out white against the tan . |
| 26 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 27 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 28 | Stir the flour into the remaining juices and cook slowly until well browned , stirring all the time . |
| 29 | Put 450g/1lb rhubarb in a pan with a little water and cook slowly until soft and pulpy . |
| 30 | Add the chopped prunes , apricots , apples , raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up . |