Example sentences of "[conj] to date " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although to date it has happened only twice , I recognise , as the committee 's chairman , that this is not satisfactory and it is the committee 's practice in such situations to suspend its own enquiry immediately . |
| 2 | Each in turn has been influenced by involvement in the major OECD/CERI ‘ Transition to Adulthood ’ project , although to date the UK contribution to the project has been very limited . |
| 3 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |
| 4 | One in four products from the chemist will contain chemical compounds derived from rainforest plants , and it is estimated that to date only one per cent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use . |
| 5 | Dataquest says that to date much of the growth in the Unix market has been in the scientific and engineering world , but that future growth will be more business-oriented . |
| 6 | It was felt that to date such support had not been forthcoming in this region due to the prevailing indigenous political bias for private enterprise and to the lack of meaningful local government itself under direct rule . |
| 7 | When you reviewed your business plan , did you conclude that to date you had been successful ? |
| 8 | I also smiled to myself , at the same time thanking the good Lord that to date I had n't received an opal ring , a gold bracelet or a necklace . |
| 9 | However , we can say that to date privatized companies in these categories , when measured against all other companies , have not displayed any dramatic improvement since privatization . |
| 10 | On July 29 a Croatian report cited figures from the Bosnian health centre that to date 8,018 had been killed in the fighting and 100,000 were said to be in " concentration camps " , reports of which remained unconfirmed . |
| 11 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 12 | He made one point with which I was in complete agreement — that to date there had been no positive selling of the merits or advantages of this treaty by its principal proponents . |
| 13 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 14 | Since the bed was built , it has been used not only by the division , but also by other charities , and to date it has helped in raising £700 . |
| 15 | The aircraft has been fully operational since 1987 and to date has completed more than 650 centrifugal launches with a better than 98% success rate — not such an outlandish scheme after all ! |
| 16 | All required materials are now in situ at the intermediate station , Winchcombe , the trackbed has been prepared , and to date over one third of a mile of track has been laid . |
| 17 | A four-wheeled diesel called ‘ Rusty ’ loosely based on a Rushton Shunter design , also celebrated its arrival recently and to date is mainly used for engineering and work trains . |
| 18 | It has adapted its primary product , the PowerHouse applications generator for use in Japan and to date , has over 2,000 Japanese installations . |
| 19 | Indeed , Alderson ( 1988 ) observes that age-specific mortality rates for breast cancer have remained essentially static this century and to date there is little evidence that early detection and treatment of this disease is having much effect . |
| 20 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 21 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 22 | It was a small personal obligation , and to date it had n't particularly fretted what he supposed other people called conscience . |
| 23 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 24 | In addition , there has been some growth in part-time courses leading to CNAA master 's degrees and to date twelve centres have been approved for this purpose , offering courses to about 350 students . |
| 25 | A Mr Ross from Leominster , who owned a shoe shop in Bishop 's Castle , was a keen cine photographer and when he came to Bishop 's Castle ( by train ) he was in the habit of taking film of the railway , but the family moved away to the South Coast , after selling the business , and to date we have not been able to trace the family or film . |
| 26 | The first , and to date only , involuntary repatriation operation in December 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] had been highly controversial , and in February 1990 the UK had failed in its attempt to persuade Vietnam to accept a policy of involuntary repatriation [ see pp. 37248-49 ] . |
| 27 | The columns on the right of the form show the total allocation to each project for the period and to date . |
| 28 | The term is problematic , and to date very little work has been done to determine the means by which it is possible to reach qualitative judgements about dramatic characters . |
| 29 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 30 | The Longman Group 's semi-official history of the party will doubtless provide the basic starting-point for scholars of twentieth century Conservatism for years to come , but to date it offers still only a largely introductory , if more detailed , survey of the Conservative party in the first three decades of this century . |