Example sentences of "[coord] not until " in BNC.

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1 " I was always creative John ! " she said again and again , as if I kept impiously insisting that she was creative only sometimes or not until recently .
2 " I was always creative John ! " she said again and again , as if I kept impiously insisting that she was creative only sometimes or not until recently .
3 And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors .
4 And on this she turned away ; and Agnes got to her feet and not until then did she realise how tired and even sick she was feeling .
5 This was because Welsh was traditionally ‘ the language of the hearth ’ , and not until fairly recently was written Welsh taught .
6 In contrast , the Australian marsupial fauna has remained isolated by sea and not until late Tertiary times , when Australia-New Guinea had moved close to the Indonesian islands , was even limited and chance colonisation possible of Asian placentals across small water barriers ( Whitmore , 1981 ) .
7 A ‘ universal ’ old age pension did not exist in principle until 1956 , and not until 1965 was it extended to the peasantry and made universal in practice .
8 After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels .
9 And not until the late 1990s shall we know whether ( as seems most unlikely ) judicial attitudes have changed as a result .
10 It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation .
11 And it was not until June that The Times began to ruffle its feathers and not until today that we get this . ’
12 We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public .
13 And not until this morning when erm Richmondshire cir circulated their erm evidence have I seen any example of er be given a pressure which er which is being exerted .
14 East resigned , Rowlands returned , but not until the junior vice-president , Rhys Williams , had tendered his resignation .
15 A favourable review did appear , but not until a year later .
16 INTERNATIONAL Salomon Brothers report predicts recovery for European hotels , but not until the end of 1991
17 Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country .
18 Fish , but not until 10 months .
19 Eventually some instructional material did arrive , but not until October , by which time the whole detachment had qualified .
20 This was established by Act of Parliament as the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England — known as English Heritage — but not until nine years later .
21 If you are a widow and stop receiving benefit because your children have grown up , you must also start paying the full rate , but not until the beginning of the next tax year .
22 She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along .
23 His first tournament will be the Tenerife Open , but not until mid-February .
24 If you have enough living movement in your writing , if your nouns support each sentence and your verbs fly like flung ropes , or like shaking cobwebs , between them , then you are in a position to decorate it with adjectives and adverbs — but not until .
25 At last , but not until May 1941 , did the much-feared message which we had prayed never to receive , arrive .
26 Like bringing in much needed humour ( Gordon Houghton ) , setting the mag back on track ( Stuart , after Gordon and Co left abruptly ) but not until now have I felt compelled to write to you .
27 Trading and personal contacts with the PRC gradually increased over these years , but not until 1972 did a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei herald Japanese recognition of the PRC .
28 But not until the following May , when the whole Council had united to demand intervention , did she give in .
29 Sentence ( 10 ) tells us of a " weakness " of the " heart " , but not until ( 11 ) , where this matter is taken up again in the expression " the poor child was not robust " , do we learn that it provided a reason for the present interview : it was for this reason ( we surmise ) that the Moreens wished to engage a resident tutor .
30 When your story has been proved , I will set you free , and I will pay you as I have undertaken — but not until then . ’
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