Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] date [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miners began to return to work on Oct. 26 after the NUM had accepted De Beers ' offer of wage increases ranging from 16.5 to 18 per cent ; the De Beers offer was backdated two months earlier than the normal settlement date of July 1 and the company also conceded June 16 , " Soweto Day " , as a public holiday . |
| 2 | The University may consider applications from overseas candidates received after the normal closing date of 15 December , but candidates should make early application through UCAS , so that they can be informed in good time of any further qualifications required before they can be considered for admission . |
| 3 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 4 | Fair enough in the circumstances , but since the extended expiry date in 1952 , several growers have received individual concessions and , although the overall aim has been to gradually reduce the Gamay , the fact that at least 20 hectares exist , some 60 years after the law intent on banning the grape was first introduced , surely indicates that a certain laisser-faire attitude has been taken by successive administrations . |
| 5 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 6 | THE FALL play a one-off autumn date with Cabaret Voltaire and The Wendys supporting . |
| 7 | His finest things in this form date from his later years — ‘ Behold thou has made my days ’ can be dated 1618 and ‘ Glorious and powerful God ’ was probably nearly contemporary and the great ‘ O Lord , let me know mine end ’ of the long-lived though generally conservative Tomkins may be later still . |
| 8 | An official closure date for the yard has not been announced , but the majority of the 500 workers are expected to have left towards the end of July , with the bulk going after this month 's commissioning ceremony . |
| 9 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 10 | Possibly the solution is to fix accounting reference dates for those companies choosing to make up their accounts to the end of the month with fewer than 31 days to , say , the third day of the following month and take regular advantage of seven day variation of actual accounting date from accounting reference date allowed by s 223 . |
| 11 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
| 12 | ‘ The portfolios which gave rise to this problem were those under which , besides guaranteed income payments , there was a guarantee that a stated sum would be repaid to the investor at the future maturity date of his chosen stock . ’ |
| 13 | L6 is almost certain to be delayed until well after its official launch date in May . |
| 14 | THE FALL have announced one additional autumn date in Manchester at the Free Trade Hall on October 3 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , ICE-T 's new LP ‘ Home Invasion ’ , the rapper 's first release since the ‘ Cop Killer ’ furore , has been pushed back from its original November 10 release date to early 1993 . |
| 16 | Across the river in the northern suburb detailed information is lacking , though the known finds would suggest a second century date for the earliest occupation . |
| 17 | ‘ 47401 ( D1500 ) is now stored under covered accommodation at Immingham shed pending a formal future release date by BR to the society . ’ |
| 18 | We had hoped to coincide with the actual anniversary date of that fateful flight , but unfortunately this proved to be impossible , though we were able to travel to France on September 20 . |
| 19 | SEGA system owners and fans of the unique spiky blue hedgehog , will be thrilled to learn that the official release date of Sonic 2 , the most awaited Sega game of the year , has been confirmed as Tuesday November 24 . |
| 20 | The proposed or actual despatch date for the order , in the form dd-MMM-yyyy . |
| 21 | The proposed or actual despatch date for the order can be changed . |
| 22 | According to the WWF , timber importers have a crucial role in attaining the WWF 's 1995 target date for " sustainable timber production " . |
| 23 | I note that there is in train a proposal to change legislation to provide for a later retirement date for females to equate with those of the males . |
| 24 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
| 25 | The Department of Energy has recognized that its current termination date for subsidizing such projects , 1998 , is too tight and that many projects will be unable to raise the necessary finance beyond that date and might have to be abandoned . |
| 26 | Initial closing date for this offer is 2 October 1992 , and it will not be extended beyond 30 October 1992 . |
| 27 | Win or lose , though , he has an important diary date in May , when Newcastle University confers an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree on his father . |
| 28 | There are far fewer mosaics of fourth century date in this region than there are in the West Country . |
| 29 | A prime example of this is a silver rams-horn presentation piece which , despite being dated 1905 ( outside the normal cut-off date of 1892 for the Fair ) , has been wholeheartedly accepted for exhibition . |
| 30 | Also in last week 's issue , Class and coworkers interpret radiogenic isotope date from the Kerguelen plume in just this way . |