Example sentences of "[be] not until [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 2 | It was not until towards the end of 1986 that the Stock Exchange Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' Exam was introduced . |
| 3 | Gay had begun , characteristically , by wishing Susan and Breeze luck in their new home , and it was not until near the end of the letter that she mentioned her own affairs . |
| 4 | Neither Mrs Longhill nor Mrs Peterson understood what was wrong with Ruth and it was not until half-past five next morning , when the doctor at last arrived , that a name was put to it . |
| 5 | The report was first published on 13th July , with only the Proceedings , and it was not until after the close of the Parliamentary session that a full document with minutes of evidence , appendices , a map and an index appeared . |
| 6 | But no medieval kingdom would seem even tolerably peaceful to a modern visitor ; and it was not until after Otto I 's great victory over the Magyars at the Lechfeld in 955 that the fear of invasion and plunder from outside Germany was forgotten . |
| 7 | But it was not until after 1984 and the growing rapprochement and détente between the superpowers that WEU began to re-emerge as a body that could have real value . |
| 8 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 9 | It was not until after the Second World War that a distinction between an exoteric display of prejudice and an esoteric anti-semitic ideology can be discerned in racial nationalist literature . |
| 10 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 11 | It was not until after his death that the source of the problem was really understood . |
| 12 | The payment of means-tested benefits to the families of strikers was part of the poor law system from the end of the nineteenth century , but it was not until after the National Assistance Act , 1948 , that the conditions for the payment as well as the level of the benefit were improved . |
| 13 | 770 , it was not until after c . |
| 14 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 15 | It was not until after Darwin 's meeting with Gould at the Zoological Society to discuss the ornithological collection in early March , however , that the penny finally dropped . |