Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not until [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not until we 're sitting on the floor dropping cheese on the carpet she tells me she is moving on . |
| 2 | It is not until we broach such questions as , What is meant when a speaker sets an adjective in juxtaposition to its noun as opposed to linking it indirectly via a form of the verb to be ? that we can start to give a full and proper account of syntax . |
| 3 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 4 | It is not until they get accepted into the Project that we find the problem emerging that perhaps senior staff are not supportive . |
| 5 | It is not until his second novel that he really develops the implications of this stance . |
| 6 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 7 | Although this book can give you ideas , general hints and tips on how to press and arrange flowers , it is not until you really start designing pictures for yourself that you will have mastered the skill needed for this craft . |
| 8 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |