Example sentences of "[be] not until " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 2 | She added : ‘ Our next election is not until 1992 . |
| 3 | However it is not until this twentieth century that variable space has become a conceptual reality ( see Chapters 5 and 14 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Major can draft a Queen 's Speech at his leisure , The State Opening of Parliament is not until May 6 . |
| 5 | That is not until recently , when captive bred clownfishes came onto the market . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Faculty has received a number of responses to the consultative document although the deadline is not until the end of October . |
| 7 | It is not until then that official information on course vacancies will be published . |
| 8 | Gloucester may subsequently have joined the king in pursuit of the rebels , but the next firm reference to his presence in his brother 's company is not until July , when he accompanied the king into Yorkshire to deal with the rebellion of Warwick 's kinsman lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth . |
| 9 | Er , at the time , we had no response when this was announced by Jim erm , it does in fact clash with our council meeting but in view of the fact that erm our business meeting Se , in December is not until the second Monday , I would be happy to put the erm council meeting back to the following Monday if there was sufficient interest from the members . |
| 10 | But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being . |
| 11 | It is not until the 1860s or even later that details of plumbing are really considered , even by architects . |
| 12 | The telephone calls can wait and my first meeting is not until lunchtime . ’ |
| 13 | Whether that meeting took place is not recorded and the next minute is not until 21st . |
| 14 | … which is not until Act 5 , when the poet re-enters briefly , prattling on to his captors ' exasperation . |
| 15 | However , it is not until the Bolshevik Party , the first communist party to seize state power , ushers in the birth of the Soviet Union that we can realistically speak of a communist bloc . |
| 16 | Gloucester may subsequently have joined the king in pursuit of the rebels , but the next firm reference to his presence in his brother 's company is not until July , when he accompanied the king into Yorkshire to deal with the rebellion of Warwick 's kinsman lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth . |
| 17 | But the abnormally dry soil means that it is not until late January that the ground becomes saturated enough for the rainfall to start percolating through to the aquifers . |
| 18 | Volumes is not until er later on in the year . |
| 19 | ‘ The race itself is not until next week . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Mates replies that the target date for doing so at Belfast Prison is not until the year 2000 . |
| 21 | but Caroline 's half term is not until the week after next |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not until August . |
| 23 | Example continued It 's not until 1992 that the giant wakes up and tries to dig his way to the surface . |
| 24 | Oh there it is Catchword 's not until five , five tonight |
| 25 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 26 | And I believe the meeting of the Humanist Society which Cornish is chairing is n't until next Tuesday . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh … it is n't until next month … |
| 28 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 29 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 30 | Unequivocal though that statement was , it was not until the |