Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] date " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dictionary as a whole needs to be kept constantly up to date . |
| 2 | Some of the new investment is financed by parent companies , as is shown by the growing share of investment in subsidiaries , but the resale of less up to date equipment to subcontractors is also a common practice . |
| 3 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 4 | One important qualification here is , however , that answers to survey questions are variable over time and the fullest surveys available are now somewhat out of date : one must be alert to the changes since the late 1960s when the surveys of Butler and Stokes ( 1974 ) and Townsend ( 1979 ) were conducted ( these form the basis of the following discussion ) . |
| 5 | It 's a useful guide , even if the set-up illustrated is somewhat out of date . |
| 6 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous . |
| 7 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 8 | it 's a real shame we 're so out of date . |
| 9 | These days the Sandinistas ' party anthem , which refers to the US government as the ‘ enemies of humanity ’ , sounds quaintly out of date . |
| 10 | He understood the various causes of colic , but his practice was dilatory and generally out of date ’ . |
| 11 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 12 | Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Now this view of science is already out of date . |
| 14 | Democracy , alas , though still far from being universally practised or accepted , was already out of date . |
| 15 | Yet as a tool for ‘ de-coding ’ literature , structural analysis is labelled ‘ already out of date ’ ( 52/630 ) . |
| 16 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 17 | But the waitresses in Marshall and Snelgrove had new uniforms , dark purple instead of the old coffee-cream shade , and a different style of cap , more up to date and less obtrusive . |
| 18 | Thus the importance of coinage for our understanding of the past diminishes , generally speaking , the more up to date we come . |
| 19 | For those who like to be a little more up to date , I recommend the ‘ Digital DDD ’ series ( CD or cassette ) ; recordings featuring Previn , Tennstedt , Marriner , Ozawa , Sawallisch , Slatkin , Muti , Ousset , Gavrilov and Zacharias from the mid '80s . |
| 20 | Surely , in any specialisation , each consultant who is widely experienced , but a bit out of date , should form a team with one or two younger , more vigorous , more up to date ‘ apprentice ’ consultants so that their strengths complement each other . |
| 21 | With the passage of time thereafter , the role of the audited accounts becomes progressively less important and other more up to date information , including up to date references and up to date experience of transactions and accounts , of whatever kind , covering later periods , become progressively more important . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 23 | The English news , inserted at 1315 , was more up to date , having been prepared in the late morning . |
| 24 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 25 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |
| 26 | As a result of a Request For Proposal process , IBM was asked to provide a more powerful and more up to date processor to replace one of the two existing IBM 3090–600J machines . |
| 27 | DOS 6 will see it being brought a lot more up to date . |
| 28 | My niece , Alison , tells me that the more up to date term is solo as in ‘ going solo . ’ |
| 29 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
| 30 | More regular and more up to date information is needed to take action . |