Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] date " in BNC.
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| 1 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 2 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 3 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 4 | Many of the writers gave stereotypes of bookshops which were clearly years out of date and which they themselves knew were out of date . |
| 5 | Finally , the rateable values were out of date as no revaluation had occurred since 1973 . |
| 6 | The floor plans that they were actually shown on their training course were out of date for the procedures , so that 's what my whatever , erm security |
| 7 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 8 | Because the tax registers of Poitiers were out of date , heavy burdens were falling on those unable to pay , including widows and orphans . |
| 9 | It therefore follows as night follows day that before you started updating your brochures anyway , there was always a risk that the brochures that were on site might be out of date and therefore I 'm not suggesting deliberately , but innocently , might mislead an elderly purchaser , because the figures were out of date , that 's right is n't it ? |
| 10 | Neil Kinnock former idealist who realised that he has to temper idealism with reality and also persuade his dyed in the wool colleagues that their ideas were out of date . |
| 11 | Most of the country 's fertility clinics were listed , although none of the catalogues was up to date . |
| 12 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 13 | Mr Crumwallis , satisfied that it was up to date , handed it to Mike Pumfrey , who inspected it in silence . |
| 14 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 15 | She was doing well at college , all her work was up to date and she did n't seem at all under pressure . |
| 16 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought the idea of a fixed IQ rating was out of date now , that the latest reports from educationists say you ca n't measure it exactly . ’ |
| 18 | He was out of date there . |
| 19 | House suggests that the reliance on rationality leading to objectivity that dominated early responses was out of date : |
| 20 | They said it was out of date and that I should get a Parrot jacket like the one Adam Faith wears on telly . |
| 21 | Narrative is suddenly , and once again , the blood and guts of fiction , and Waugh 's remark that ‘ the exuberant men are extinct ’ was out of date even as he wrote , though only just . |
| 22 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 23 | Inevitably , however , cases would occur when the information was out of date , if the owner had recently died or disposed of the property or , if a woman , had changed her name by marrying . |
| 24 | It was Sunday , she was expecting a detective , the timetable at the cafe was out of date . |
| 25 | I 've personally had problems with one doctor cos he was out of date , he was n't you know , was n't aware of some of the treatments and I had to actually enlighten him to some of the the treatments that was available for people ! |
| 26 | Ho and how did you know he was out of date ? |
| 27 | His was out of date . |
| 28 | The person who called me a positivist went on to add that everyone knew that positivism was out of date — another case of refutation by denigration . |
| 29 | You do n't seriously think I 'd drive around knowing that my insurance was out of date ? |
| 30 | Now you know why my insurance was out of date . |