Example sentences of "[not/n't] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics . |
| 2 | ‘ Not except from a technical point of view . |
| 3 | This allows relatively complex Boolean conditions to be built up and tested , such as : in the programming department AND able to speak French BUT NOT if in grade 3 UNLESS from North branch . |
| 4 | But not cos of that ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh not until about one o'clock . |
| 7 | It was not until towards the end of 1986 that the Stock Exchange Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' Exam was introduced . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | According to Freud , this happens after a period of ‘ anaesthesia ’ , in fact , often not until after first coitus . |
| 11 | No one would start looking for me for hours ; not until after dark . |
| 12 | Not until after his death did he become known as Alfred the Great . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , no — not until after the New Year , ’ was the reply . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 17 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 18 | You need to book in advance but not until after July 9 . |
| 19 | She it was who took the reading , writing , and arithmetic , but , of course , not until after more prayers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not until after 1753 with Lord Hardwick 's Marriage Act did the church wedding as opposed to verbal spousehoods become the single legally binding form , with compulsory registration in the parish register , parental consent enshrined up to the age of 21 and enforcement transferred to the secular authorities . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not until after Easter was King Henry well enough to attend a conference , but even then nothing was achieved . |
| 26 | It was not until after his death that the source of the problem was really understood . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Not until after lunch , ’ Alice told him . |
| 29 | 770 , it was not until after c . |
| 30 | However , if an application is made to the court for an order requiring the trustee to summon a meeting to consider a resolution for his removal as trustee , the court may , if it thinks no sufficient cause has been shown for the application , dismiss it but not until after an ex parte hearing of the applicant ( r 6.132(2) ) . |