Example sentences of "[adj] until [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The 1902 Act established a system of secondary education as the 1870 Act had done for elementary education , by filling the gaps in the existing provision with non-denominational state schools ( they were not free until 1944 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I sha n't be free until 7.00 , ’ Erika said . |
| 3 | Equipment remained relatively primitive until some years after the war . |
| 4 | The changing trend of shareholdings was clear until 1981 — individuals were owning far less compared with insurance companies , pension funds and trusts . |
| 5 | For example , it was not clear until 1983 that there were people with AIDS in central Africa . |
| 6 | The closeness of Pound 's and Eliot 's collaboration when they were young did not become clear Until 1972 . |
| 7 | Lane had to relinquish his tenancy in 1885 , the mill remaining empty until 1888 . |
| 8 | Purley depôt stood empty until 23 November , when it was sold for £20,000 , passing subsequently to Messrs. Schweppes Mineral Waters as a store . |
| 9 | Gillespie Park , Islington , derelict until 1981 and more recently landscaped , seeded and managed as an information ecological park , is now fully established as a fascinating urban nature reserve . |
| 10 | After being sold to a Leeds scrapyard in about 1920 the crane became derelict until 1988 when it was salvaged and restored by Dorothea Restoration Engineers . |
| 11 | Office forecast was that the winds would be light until late afternoon , then would increase to force five by dusk . |
| 12 | By the time Western economies suffered the severe shock of the quadrupling of oil prices in 1973 , and subsequent further increases in 1979 , the baby boom was already long over , although marriage continued to become more popular until 1972 . |
| 13 | This type of preoccupation has also been prevalent until recent years . |
| 14 | Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 . |
| 15 | This underground showplace was unsuspected until 1923 when a Cambridge undergraduate named Long noticed a small aperture in the hillside and , upon investigation by crawling into it , soon found himself entering a more commodious passage which in turn led to a magnificent cavern drained by a dancing stream and liberally decorated with delicate stalactites and natural carvings . |
| 16 | The system was 6 miles long , the voltage was 525 D.C. and current collection was by a third rail , central until 1905 , then outside . |
| 17 | They demanded the immediate payment of the bonus promised to them by the government , but not payable until 1945 . |
| 18 | This is because , taking account of the reduction in the rate of ACT to 25% ( ignoring the transitional rate payable until 31 March 1994 ) , setting Newco 's losses against its surplus franked investment income equates to tax relief of £20 for each £100 of interest payable , whereas group relief is worth £33 . |
| 19 | ( News that funding for Isis , the complementary neutron source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories , would stay fixed until 1997 came as a great relief to scientists in the UK . ) |
| 20 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 21 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 22 | Born on April Fool 's Day 1809 , young Robert was destined not to be baptised until he was 13 years old ; his sister Elizabeth , the next of Ben and Elizabeth 's little brood , was similarly left unbaptised until six years after her birth in 1811 . |
| 23 | As Walsh ( 1984:328 ) emphasis , the Special Powers Act remained unmodified until 1972 . |
| 24 | It also involves rescheduling the whole programme so that decisions on commitments to production can be deferred until nineteen ninety five , with first deliveries to United Kingdom and Italy occurring in the year two thousand and to er Spain and Germany in two thousand and two . |
| 25 | It should also enable them to obtain " roll-over " relief ( see para 23.2.1.2 below ) so that any charge to tax on capital gains is deferred until such time as the consideration shares are disposed of . |
| 26 | Battleships would grow bigger after this , but the essential formula of the heavily armoured ship with four big guns making about 16 knots was unchanged until 1906 . |
| 27 | This position remained unchanged until 1949 when , for reasons of administrative convenience to the Inland Revenue , short-term benefits were excluded from tax liability . |
| 28 | In 1868 also Knowles , with Tennyson 's encouragement , founded the Metaphysical Society , which met monthly until 1880 for evening discussions at Knowles 's house on Clapham Common . |
| 29 | This would mean that none of the plants would close until the late 1990s , and that the most modern , Wylfa , would remain operational until 2005 . |
| 30 | After the age of ten the amount of REM sleep remains constant until old age . |