Example sentences of "that until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Costings now reveal that until recently the approach which placed emphasis on type longevity and the value of the bull calf netted virtually the same money as higher production strategies , and farmers following these routes were not irrational . |
| 2 | It is sometimes said that this is a novel view of the question , that until very recently all political theorists believed in a general obligation to obey the law . |
| 3 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 4 | The first is that until 1983 all exports and imports were valued in so-called ‘ statistical ’ dollars , by converting the original valuations into dollars at the rate of exchange ruling at the beginning of the year . |
| 5 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 6 | For example , Gage ( 1989 ) has discussed some of the medical applications that have resulted from this type of work , notably the production of interferon which is a potential anti-viral and anti-cancer agent that until recently was only available in very small quantities by extracting it directly from human cells . |
| 7 | ‘ I instruct my daughter out of concern for her safety that until such time as she raises children she should make no will : in this way she will be able to live without danger . ’ |
| 8 | More entertainingly , it emerges that until 1972 Ridgeway Consultants was known as Rol-Oyo and was engaged in the business of making and selling ice cream and pastry products . |
| 9 | And do n't forget that this year 's show includes a Vintage & Collectable section , where you will be able to see some of the instruments that until now have featured only in your dreams ! |
| 10 | Imitation , they say , is the sincerest form of flattery , and the Taiwanese , masters of mimicry , are going ahead with an ambitious plan to copy a style of rugby that until now has been alien to them . |
| 11 | ‘ Deep down inside her is a very decent , caring , sweet person and I do n't care what anyone says , I 'll believe that until the day I die , ’ said Bill , 56 . |
| 12 | The truth was though , that until now he had never possessed anything much , so how could he know ? |
| 13 | Fossils show that until the end of the Eocene period a land bridge connected Eurasia with North America . |
| 14 | It is clear that until April 1102 the pope was still insisting on the full observance of his predecessor 's decrees . |
| 15 | In these drawings one sees experiments and achievements that until now one thought came much later in his career . |
| 16 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 17 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 18 | It now seems more probable that until the beginning of the 1970s there was a combination of elements favourable to rapid economic growth in the major economies , particularly those of Europe and Japan . |
| 19 | He says that until now the company 's marketing drive has ‘ not been Telepoint led ’ , and instead pitched at selling the handsets as ‘ a quality cordless phone ’ . |
| 20 | The seemingly boundless confidence of Mr Milosevic and his allies was not unconnected with the fact that until 1991 most of the rest of the world still seemed to reject any loosening of the bonds — controlled by the Serbs — that kept the existing Yugoslavia together . |
| 21 | It is disturbing that until recently there was no access to DGSE holding centres by Red Cross officials . |
| 22 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 23 | Memories being short , it may be forgotten that until comparatively recently a spin bowler was allowed to rough up the ball in the dust to help his grip . |
| 24 | Then , a New York collector paid a record $1.2 million ( £657,500 ) for ‘ Femme assise en blouse roumaine ’ , a drawing by Henri Matisse that until recently had been part of the private collection of New York dealer William Acquavella . |
| 25 | For women of all social classes to be further liberated , both access to those institutions and the content of what is taught there should be increasingly woman-centred in order to gain the ground that until now has been very largely occupied by men . |
| 26 | Part of the answer is simply that until very recently , most chimpanzee research was done on captive animals , who lead a very boring life , are often kept apart from other members of their family , and have a constant abundance of food . |
| 27 | But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them . |
| 28 | But somehow it stuck to her , a battered meaningless fragment of those far-off days , something that until now she 'd never quite managed to lose . |
| 29 | They might find that until the sixteenth century everyone believed that the Sun went round the Earth . |
| 30 | Half-demolished walls and staircases suggested that until recently the chamber had been a warren of antique stonework . |