Example sentences of "[adj] to date " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new No. 10 Catalogue is certainly his most comprehensive to date , containing every aspect of lighting from candle lamps to the most modern halogen spotlamp . |
| 2 | This system would appear to be the most comprehensive to date , and is reasonably successful . |
| 3 | Covering European forestry from the Atlantic to the Urals , it is the most comprehensive to date . |
| 4 | The journey had been impressively straightforward to date . |
| 5 | Candles and Dark Night describes a poetic , mythical countryside , recognisably British yet ravaged by civil war and impossible to date , though it has the atmosphere of the 1950s . |
| 6 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 7 | This I found impossible to date . |
| 8 | Though it is impossible to date the provisions with any confidence , in favour of dating them in the reign of Mehmed II is the fact that Sultan Murad III ( 982–1003/1574–95 ) , in a firman sent to his Grand Vezir in 985/1577 in connection with reform of the learned profession , speaks of " the ancient law ( kanun ) of Sultan Mehmed Gazi " : it thus seems likely that Mehmed II promulgated some legislation concerning the learned profession , if not these actual provisions . |
| 9 | Noble had been in hiding since his participation in the December 1989 coup attempt against the Aquino government — the most serious to date — and was believed to be closely associated with the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , the dissident movement within the military led by the now fugitive colonel , Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan . |
| 10 | Throughout the first half of 1990 there were continuing reverberations from the December 1989 coup attempt — the most serious to date [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 11 | Ingenious but unsuccessful to date . |
| 12 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 13 | On May 25th America 's AT&T unveiled the most ambitious to date . |
| 14 | as if in answer to this prayer one further Pathfinders production was launched in 1961- the most ambitious to date , Pathfinders to Venus . |
| 15 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 16 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
| 17 | It is helpful to date entries . |
| 18 | West Germany provides another example , with provision overall being unimpressive to date , but with some exciting demonstration projects showing recently that cycling ‘ traditions ’ do not need long histories , but may be created overnight by political will and imaginative innovation . |
| 19 | It is important to date stalagmites or flow stones , rather than stalactites , since the formation of the latter is not readily relatable to any archaeological event . |
| 20 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 21 | Styles for living/dining rooms , bedrooms and halls are simple , robust and unlikely to date . |
| 22 | It is therefore a very powerful dating technique making it possible to date the right archaeological samples ( see p. 144 ) to the year of felling , as well as providing the accurate calendar timescale necessary for radiocarbon calibration . |
| 23 | From Fredegar 's chronicle it is possible to date the king 's death to 596 , but Paul is the only author to record unequivocally that Childebert was murdered . |
| 24 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 25 | In the same way that coins with mint names can be used to identify sites , so datable coins can be used to date objects or structures found in association with them . |
| 26 | Whatever the explanation , other organisms , like trilobites or brachiopods , were more numerous in such sites , and have been used to date the rock sequences in the absence of graptolites . |
| 27 | It is now thought that the ‘ Long Count ’ was used to date historical rather than astronomical events . |
| 28 | In churches and places of worship they give clues to the identities of benefactors and , with a little skilled assistance , can be used to date important events . |
| 29 | ESR spectroscopy can also be used to date ‘ heating events ’ experienced by flint and chalcedonies . |
| 30 | Although Wheeler was never particularly interested in Roman pottery , he demonstrated the way it could be used to date construc-tional sequences on the Welsh forts , and it is unfortunate that this was not developed in his work at Verulamium , where what must have been a very small proportion of the pottery was published in the Report of 1936 ( Wheeler and Wheeler , 1936 ) . |