Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after that statute , however , it was probably not until 1338 that the king yielded up nominal , let alone actual , possession . |
| 2 | 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an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 3 | Yet it was not until 1612 that the little selection entitled Parthenia got into print . |
| 4 | It was not until 1589 that a single secretary , Louis de Revol , was entrusted with the supervision of foreign affairs in general ; and he was still an administrator , not a policy-maker . |
| 5 | Thus it was not until 1598 that an English account — by the scholar , traveller and self-consciously perfect English gentleman , Fynes Morrison — was actually redolent with patronizing contempt , and only in 1617 that there was a complete hatchet job , when Anthony Weldon accompanied James VI and I to Scotland and found the experience utterly abhorrent . |
| 6 | He was still king in 779 when he granted land to the bishop of Rochester ( CS 228 : S 36 ) and it is not until 784 that a new king , Ealhmund , appears , granting land to the abbot of Reculver ( CS 243 : S 38 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |