Example sentences of "[noun sg] until it [verb] [be] " in BNC.

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1 no amendment shall have effect until it has been approved by the Inland Revenue .
2 The draft constitution had been submitted to the House of Representatives on June 4 [ see p. 38278 ] but could not become law until it had been approved by referendum , according to President Joseph Momoh .
3 A spokeswoman for the Ombudsman 's office said the draft report was still in the hands of the DTI and that publication could not take place until it had been returned .
4 Sunil would not buy the place until it had been done .
5 Documentation will be confidential to the teacher or group until it has been agreed to release it .
6 If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid .
7 ‘ He 'll never touch a back until it 's been properly rested . ’
8 ‘ She is quite adamant , ’ Florence Ames said , ‘ nothing will satisfy her , she says she will get no rest until it has been arranged . ’
9 The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program .
10 The disk is not allowed access until it has been validated with the Disknet check program .
11 Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years .
12 There was nothing to recommend preserving the old Government until it had been formally defeated at Westminster .
13 On the foster mother 's application under section 10(9) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to apply for residence orders under section 8 of the Act in respect of the children , no direction was made that the children 's natural mother be notified , and she remained unaware of the application until it had been determined .
14 If the program is written in BASIC it is a comparatively easy matter to insert an instruction to hold print on the screen until it has been read by the children .
15 Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’
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