Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final humiliation came when Branson and Draper flew out to Munich to see Oldfield perform in concert and bring him up to date on the current situation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 4 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Christina followed her eagerly , laughing as she showed her friend how to body-surf on the smaller waves , and then how to dive and tread water waiting for a really big wave . |
| 6 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |