Example sentences of "is [conj] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The truth of the matter is that until we start to strip her down we do n't know what we will find , nobody ever does , ’ commented Mr John Leech . |
| 2 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 3 | In my opinion , the explanation for this is that until the vernal equinox ( 21 March ) the length of the day increases from north to south in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 4 | One of the most significant and suggestive points about the early history of the office is that until late in the period under consideration nearly all the Muftis held the office until their deaths , that there were very few resignations or removals . |
| 5 | The important point for our purposes is that until some assumption is made about the generally expected price level we can not rule out any response of the economy to the upward shift in the aggregate demand curve . |
| 6 | is that until we get the final figures , final settlements it 's very difficult for them to , to put actual the budget figures , but we can still actually come back at those in February and find what the |
| 7 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 8 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |