Example sentences of "[verb] until it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I must wait until it 's over . ’ |
| 2 | This is why it is better to see a doctor when you first feel unwell rather than wait until it is so bad that you have to go to hospital . |
| 3 | The creature is not fit to be seen until it is properly trained . |
| 4 | Wait until it 's absolutely certain . ’ |
| 5 | These people will constitute those who are at greatest risk , in that such people can easily go missing from a large church without being missed until it is too late to recover them . |
| 6 | The assembly can then be guided until the screw locates a previously bored hole in the surrounding frame and a few turns made until it is firmly engaged . |
| 7 | Well it 's not , they 're not saying it 's solved they 're saying it has to be delayed until it 's actually possible . |
| 8 | Disposal of property or effects all have to wait until it is formally decided who has the task of doing this . |
| 9 | You are responsible for everything you borrow until it is back in the library . |
| 10 | Each time the noise from the ‘ tap tap ’ obviously increases until it is more a ‘ clap clap ’ . |
| 11 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 12 | It will keep going until it is all gone and then it will go to another place with water and do the same . |
| 13 | If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way . |
| 14 | I wonder why the right people are so rarely asked to help until it 's too late ? |
| 15 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 16 | That ‘ something ’ could be the letter in the back of the drawer that nobody finds until it is too late . |
| 17 | The fate of the cells becomes , with time , more and more restricted until it is effectively fixed . |
| 18 | That can not happen until it is also ratified by three newly-independent , former Soviet republics which have long-range nuclear weapons stationed on their soil . |
| 19 | Wind the strip of green crepe paper round the length of your pencil or stick until it is completely covered . |
| 20 | Often cancers of these organs are not discovered until it is too late to cure them : less than 8% of lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis [ 2 ] . |
| 21 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 22 | Remove from the heat and leave to cool until it 's almost on the point of setting . |
| 23 | Once drained , which takes anything from four to eight hours , the cheese can be eaten immediately , with or without the addition of fresh cream ; or it can be left draining until it is all but dry , when it can be kept for cooking , or salted and flavoured for consumption as a mild cheese . |
| 24 | Warm it up , add four sachets of gelatin and stir until it 's all dissolved . |