Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [not/n't] until [adv] [that] " in BNC.

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1 It is not until then that official information on course vacancies will be published .
2 It was n't until then that the Toraja tribe — meaning " the people from above " — revealed themselves .
3 It was n't until yesterday that Swindon Police announced they 'd arrested a man in connection with Joan 's disappearance .
4 Although Bagnold ( 1941 ) suggested that wind blown sands , which deviated from log-normality , might have some other probability function , it was not until recently that his suggested log-hyperbolic distribution has been closely examined as an alternative ( Barndorff-Nielsen , 1977 ; Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Wyrwoll & smyth , 1985 ) .
5 It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment .
6 But it was not until recently that Birkenhead Abbeyfield Society heard from the Public Trustee Office , a government department , that it was among local charities to benefit from the legacy and would receive £120,000 .
7 But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child .
8 But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child .
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