Example sentences of "was not until [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until a decade or so later , when the Junior adventure story was beginning to examine the nature of heroism more searchingly , that Richard Armstrong ranged beyond the frontiers of his documentary adventures into a world of greater hazards , a more exacting world for the writer to describe . |
| 2 | It is believed to be to a design by Il Pellegrini , although its actual construction was not until a century after the architect 's death . |
| 3 | It was not until the advent of the tank , which simply rolled over barbed wire , that a counter was found to this simple but effective means of halting an attack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 6 | In some of these places direct contact with Cluny was slight , in some it was frequent ; but it was not until the middle of the eleventh century that Cluny began to form an order — a group of houses scattered about Europe owing direct allegiance to her . |
| 7 | It was not until the middle of 1916 that he felt sufficiently confident to offer an olive branch to the employers . |
| 8 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 9 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 10 | It was not until the year of his death that he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded an honorary LLD by St Andrews University . |
| 11 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 12 | It was not until the Spirits Act of 1860 that bottled Scotch whisky could be exported to England . |
| 13 | But it was not until the autumn of 1981 that the bombshell finally exploded . |
| 14 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 15 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 16 | It was not until the end of the same year that Henry and Philip of France followed suit . |
| 17 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 18 | By mid February there were only two B.2s and one PR.3 on strength and it was not until the end of the year that B.2 strength reached a reasonable figure with 25 aircraft . |
| 19 | If Hadow indicated direction and purpose it was not until the end of the Second World War that such ideals would begin to be realised . |
| 20 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 21 | It was not until the end of May that Boldwood was brave enough to declare his love . |
| 22 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union officially accepted the invitation , but it was not until the end of January that Mikoian 's imminent arrival ( on 4 February 1960 ) was announced . |
| 24 | It was not until the end of the Victorian period , when electric trams provided cheap public transport , that new working class suburbs could be built out of town and away from the vicinity of the workplace . |
| 25 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 26 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 27 | It was not until the crisis of late August 1939 , when the Nazi-Soviet pact was announced , clearly foreshadowing the impending attack on Poland , that the Labour Party and the movement at large shook off its hostility to the government at least to the extent of supporting , and in the crisis of early September demanding , an early declaration of war . |
| 28 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 29 | It was not until the appearance of the 107 m.p.h . |
| 30 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |