Example sentences of "not until [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 2 | Not until a new switching centre in Birmingham comes on stream will the 1000-km network be up to the mark . |
| 3 | Although there were , of course , counter arguments , it was not until a rapidly declining population became an acknowledged fact that the case for exclud-ing certain groups from family allowances lost its force . |
| 4 | Not until a paper published in 1910 does Freud settle on the term ‘ Oedipus complex ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the eye-irritating smogs of Los Angeles in the 1940s received nationwide media coverage , it was not until a 1948 six-day smog in Donora , Pennsylvania , causing 6000 cases of illness and 20 deaths , that air pollution succeeded in gaining federal attention ( Schrenk et al. , 1949 ) . |
| 7 | One should note that within the text it is not until a good three-quarters of the tale has passed that Wilekin is identified as a clerk , in the exchange between Margery and Dame Sirith over the weeping bitch . |
| 8 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 9 | Despite such pressure , and despite the evidence of the dangers of lead to children and unborn babies , it was not until an EEC Directive of 1985 stated that member countries must make unleaded petrol widely available by October 1989 that CLEAR 's proposals were followed up . |
| 10 | It was not until an Indian secretary arrived and said " Well I 'm sorry , you ca n't really go up , the Harem is up there . " |
| 11 | Not until the Kremlin signalled that times had changed could life be breathed back into Wallenberg 's heroism . |
| 12 | At the close of yesterday 's hearing , the court reserved judgment on the two appeals and gave leave for Mr Crook to pursue the third — but not until the first judgment had been given . |
| 13 | Not until the early sixties did it seem to be generally acknowledged that Britain was no longer a great power as previously understood . |
| 14 | While an earlier generation of writers had noted this feature of the period , it was not until the recent work of Cairncross that the significance of this outflow was realized . |
| 15 | It 's not until the front tyres are struggling for adhesion , and screaming in anguish as the nose slithers round , that the Dodge 's steering imparts any sensation of what 's happening down at road level . |
| 16 | Never before and , perhaps not until the Group C inspired supercars of the late '80s and early '90a have race and road car design been so closely linked . |
| 17 | It seems probable that it was not until the doubling in the size of crowds between the wars that the ‘ rough ’ as opposed to the ‘ respectable ’ working class was fully represented as a proportion of the total population . |
| 18 | The answer has to be an emphatic ‘ no ’ ; not until the Government is switches funding from road-building to investing in the railway infrastructure , which remains the most sensible alternative . |
| 19 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 20 | Thus it was not until the AMS technique had been perfected that a fragment of the linen could be removed for dating . |
| 21 | It was not until the last note of the closing music had died away that Bella clicked off the set . |
| 22 | Although there were several disputes during the next twenty months , it was not until the coal mines were formally handed back to the coal owners , on 31 March 1921 , that serious conflict ensued . |
| 23 | Not until the bureaucratic nonsense of the EC is inevitably replaced by an expanded EFTA , free exchange rates and an expansion of world free trade , will prosperity improve . |
| 24 | Sweetheart was going to be a model , too , but not until the school 's principal found the good sense to send her maliciously jealous sisters-in-law packing . |
| 25 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 26 | During the latter part of the eighteenth century several handsome houses were built overlooking the river there and the name became ‘ Strand on Green ’ , and not until the early part of the nineteenth century did the present name of ‘ Strand-on-the-Green ’ become formally adopted . |
| 27 | But , it 's not until the sun sets , that the Mar Estang really comes into its own . |
| 28 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 29 | It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups . |
| 30 | ‘ It will be some time before the results of the experiment can be applied ; not until the child reaches maturity can we evaluate our findings . |