Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] not [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 33 | The Welsh bishop of Llandaff seems never to have submitted , and it was not until 1107 that Anselm was able to consecrate a bishop thoroughly devoted to the interests of Canterbury . |
| 34 | At this stage , however , the vast majority of churches remained unaffected , and it was not until Edward 's reign that images were removed and destroyed wholesale . |
| 35 | Montanari was no doubt puzzled , and it was not until 1782 that the cause of Algol 's variations was explained by John Goodricke , a most unusual astronomer inasmuch as he was deaf and dumb , and died at the early age of 21 . |
| 36 | Mr Reynolds needed the nasogastric tube for 4 days after his operation because he developed a paralytic ileus and it was not until the fourth post-operative day that the bowel began to work . |
| 37 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 38 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 39 | The first English gold coin was struck only in 1255 and it was not until 1344 that the country was able to begin to sustain what proved to be no more than half a millennium of minting a gold denomination in its regular coinage . |
| 40 | The topic lasted them all the way back to the Campo San Maurizio and it was not until they were climbing the stairs up to their respective rooms that he let himself say : |
| 41 | It would appear that the small number of pupils in a country school had read all in which they were interested and borrowing declined and it was not until a new set of children were ready for reading that regular lendings became frequent again in 1911 and 1912 . |
| 42 | The clearance of the staging at the end of the bridge took only a short time , and it was not until they were moving once more that Alexei had a sudden thought . |
| 43 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 44 | Our chartered Sunsail 350 , La Pietra , rode contentedly with the other anchored boats in the shimmering heat of the afternoon , and it was not until the sun turned bright orange and began to drop rapidly seawards that anyone in the boat felt like stirring . |
| 45 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 46 | And it was not until Mrs Thackray 's tall , craggy fair-haired son had shouldered his luggage and led him to the top of St Jude 's Street that he had realized his peril . |
| 47 | Now Sophia was interested in the furniture and objects , and it was not until they had finished their coffee that the talk turned to parish matters . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 50 | The two had a son , Neville , and it was not until after the war years that she was in a position to resume her golfing career . |
| 51 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 52 | During the crisis which preceded the Civil War , an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 53 | Software selection and use in this school has been guided by the policy stated above and it was not until such policy decisions were taken that appropriate software could be chosen . |
| 54 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 55 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 57 | Right right , I 'm erm very big , I 'm like a football ground , but I 'm not and erm lots of crickets have fallen on me before |
| 58 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 59 | But she 's not if it 's coming natural . |
| 60 | They may appear nice but they 're not and someone you do n't know is a stranger . |