Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dismayed by my own instant reaction when seeing a copy of a letter from the Director of Age Concern England to the Department of Health , asking for the age limits for blood donation to be extended above the present age limit of 65 . |
| 2 | During the period of entry , interest rates may have to be kept at the present emergency level , but it is an emergency level , a punishment for past sins of credit creation and lax management . |
| 3 | Whether the same principle should be held to apply in the case of public authorities other than the Crown charged with the enforcement of the law falls to be decided in the present case . |
| 4 | The means by which establishments have been effected in this country are : by Royal or Parliamentary institution … or by a general subscription … or by subscriptions of substantial sums … subscribers become governors or directors of their own establishment … this latter seems to be the proper method to be adopted in the present case … |
| 5 | We all must work together to find Transport alternatives to be rid of the present traffic-hells of Oxford and other cities , and this is urgent . |
| 6 | Most assembly work is still too complex to be done by the present generation of relatively senseless machines . |
| 7 | The last type of critic to be distinguished in the present chapter will be the theoretician . |
| 8 | The Social Security Advisory Committee put it more tersely : ’ Cases which have no merit ought to be rejected by the present wording of regulation 72 . |
| 9 | Giner adds that this phenomenon , common to the Southern European states , continues to be felt to the present day . |
| 10 | These figures are agreed by consultation with departments and schools on the basis of FTEs known to be generated by the present students and projections for the following year . |
| 11 | But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System-and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate . |
| 12 | There are further levels of knowledge that have yet to be incorporated into the present project . |
| 13 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
| 14 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 15 | The project follows up a previous ESRC supported research programme into the roles of expectations and feedbacks in empirical economics , which developed some of the new tools and computer software to be used in the present research . |