Example sentences of "until the [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earlier charters after 1135 gave rights to the latter but it was not until the 1220s that the authority of the episcopal servants was finally replaced by elected bailiffs , soon to become the mayors . |
| 2 | But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being . |
| 3 | It was not until the 1970s that the use of polyethylene terephthalate as a polymer for the rigid packaging market began , but since then its growth has been explosive . |
| 4 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 5 | But the simple mix of ring roads , precincts and a general improvement in the design of road junctions , and an adherence to standard highway widths , building lines and sight-lines did not prove adequate for long , although it was not until the 1960s that the opportunities for a radical revision of policy and method were presented . |
| 6 | This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all . |
| 7 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 8 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 9 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
| 10 | It was not until the 1890s that the railway companies themselves entered the promotional market . |
| 11 | It was not until the 1860s that a determined effort was made to expand the police and to use it as an instrument to suppress crime . |
| 12 | In the 1750s , orangs from Sumatra reached Holland , but it was not until the 1850s that the English scientist Alfred Wallace ( see page 164 ) actually saw orangs in the wild and inevitably collected specimens by shooting them , the way that even the best naturalists obtained animals for study in those days . |
| 13 | It was not until the 1950s that the investment role of the services began to play a greater part in government debates while the 1960s are the period par excellence of the human capital theory and theorists . |
| 14 | The depressed post-war state of the countries ' economies meant that little progress was made until the 1950s but the experience of modern warfare had at least convinced government circles that the old security arguments against a tunnel were redundant . |
| 15 | But the war stopped progress and the world had to wait until the 1950s for the next major innovations in civilian flight . |
| 16 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 17 | It was not until the 1880s that the calculated use of a liqueur de tirage ( a mixture of wine , sugar and yeast ) became widespread in Champagne , elevating it finally , rather late in the day , to its present revered status . |
| 18 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 19 | The great circulation successes were the Daily Mirror and Daily Express into the 1960s ; the Sun from 1970 onwards , when it bit hard into the Mirror 's market ; The Daily Telegraph until the 1980s and the Guardian , in a quiet way , after it had settled in London . |
| 20 | It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a teaching laboratory became at all general ; at Durham University then , for example , laboratory instruction was still an optional extra , to be paid for if taken . |