Example sentences of "is [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'T IS only until I can find someone to convey a message to the Queen , begging her to see me . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not until his second novel that he really develops the implications of this stance . |
| 4 | Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ . |
| 5 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 6 | It is not until the Gospel has been preached in every nation that our Lord Jesus Christ will return again . |
| 7 | It is not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that the shrouded effigy appears as the central sculptural feature on funerary monuments . |
| 8 | Although this book can give you ideas , general hints and tips on how to press and arrange flowers , it is not until you really start designing pictures for yourself that you will have mastered the skill needed for this craft . |
| 9 | In the 1980s , it is still true that males have higher mortality rates than females at all ages ( except possibly after reaching the age of 100 years : OPCS 1987 : 5 ) ; but the number of deaths in childhood and early adult life is now so small that it is not until individuals reach their late forties , that women actually outnumber men of the same birth cohort . |
| 10 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 11 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 12 | It is not until they get accepted into the Project that we find the problem emerging that perhaps senior staff are not supportive . |
| 13 | Gadamer has claimed that ‘ it is not until the Enlightenment that the concept of prejudice acquires the negative aspect we are all familiar with ’ ( 1979 : 240 ) . |
| 14 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 15 | It is not until the turn of the century that what is probably the best guide to Islay was published . |
| 16 | It is not until the turn of the century that what is probably the best guide to Islay was published . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | It is not until that gift has been repaid and the exchange relationship put in balance again that a person will feel no sense of obligation . |
| 19 | It is not until the death of Lowe , on September 30th 1467 , that we come to our next account in which a full description of the last hours of this Bishop are given . |
| 20 | Sir Daniel Fleming was certainly interested in the formerly productive mines in his fells around Coniston , but it is not until 1658 is there further note of mines and then not for copper viz : |
| 21 | It is not until we 're sitting on the floor dropping cheese on the carpet she tells me she is moving on . |
| 22 | It is not until later ( perhaps mid 30s ) that their domestic commitments change so that they can start to return to work . |
| 23 | It is not until point C on the time base that net positive cash flow begins . |
| 24 | It is not until the third verse , that the tramp is mentioned again . |
| 25 | It is not until we broach such questions as , What is meant when a speaker sets an adjective in juxtaposition to its noun as opposed to linking it indirectly via a form of the verb to be ? that we can start to give a full and proper account of syntax . |
| 26 | It is not until point C on the time base that net positive cash flow begins . |
| 27 | It is not until Stanley overhears that Blanche has been calling Stanley ‘ an animal ’ that he decides that he will have to destroy her to save their marriage . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The next annal in E is not until 1028 , and hence it is quite feasible that the 1025 entry has been dislocated by one or even two years . |
| 30 | It is not until these three conditions are present that the clause comes into operation . |