Example sentences of "date by the " in BNC.

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1 Before I 'd joined they 'd called themselves Strand — after the Roxy Music song ‘ Do The Strand — and The Swankers but both these names were well past their sell-by date by the time I arrived .
2 A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia .
3 During the Empire these conservative traditions were brought up to date by the adoption of hairstyles fashionable at court ; some individuals even imitated the physical characteristics of the imperial family .
4 Habari ya Mwezi , started at an early date by the UMCA , has already been mentioned , but failed to become an important vehicle for African opinion .
5 They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission .
6 We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed .
7 For example , if pottery from a pit is said to be of a particular date by the specialist , a decision has to be taken as to how , if at all , that date relates to the pit in which the pottery was found .
8 His typical product is a three-storeyed rectangular block , which represents in essence the standard late seventeenth-century ‘ double pile ’ brought up to date by the replacement of the hipped roof of the latter by an attic storey and crowning parapet .
9 The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled .
10 As it appears from the information published to date by the Minister that it is almost impossible to determine the exact source of the dioxin that is causing the problem , what comfort does that provide to farmers ?
11 The largest demonstration faced to date by the current government , involving an estimated 50,000 government employees in Panama City on Oct. 16 , demanded the cancellation of the economic austerity plan [ see p. 37706 ] , the reversal of large-scale job losses in the public sector , and the ending of bonus payments on top salaries .
12 Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July .
13 Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried .
14 Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made .
15 By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation .
16 Copies of the book will be required by all those connected with the survey and all copies must be kept up to date by the incorporation of any coding additions , new conventions and unresolved problems .
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