Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five . |
| 2 | The Scottish Office consultation document on plans to dismantle the present two-tier structure of councils makes proposals for fundamental political and administrative reform in a quite cursory way , they state . |
| 3 | Taking lifetime consumption , this is defined as where the last term represents the present value of wealth passed on ( r being taken here as the interest rate per generation ) . |
| 4 | Though set in a biblical past , the poem used the popular application of typology to indicate a present importance . |
| 5 | Those last few words describe the present position . |
| 6 | TRADITIONAL Commonwealth growers of bananas in the Caribbean and their importers , such as Fyffes and Geest , will breathe at least a temporary sigh of relief after the European Commission finally made up its mind to extend the present quota-based system in the single market next year . |
| 7 | New regulations will require an act of Parliament , but without POs , the industry fears the present rush to increase production , brought about by improved prices , will lead to oversupply in two or three years and another crash — effectively a repetition of events in recent years . |
| 8 | This three year programme of research examines the present and future effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( PACE ) and the Prosecution of Offences Act . |
| 9 | The first section of the study examines the present situation of traditional ( sufi ) Islam . |
| 10 | Representations were made by the British delegation to liberalise the present draft to allow foreign lawyers to practise more easily in Romania . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd use it as a mandate to change the present disgraceful system , ’ Kennedy replied . |
| 12 | The simulation routine will be developed further to facilitate comprehensive analyses of radical reforms as well as of changes in the parameters underlying the present tax/benefit system . |
| 13 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 14 | This little story describes the present workings of America 's social-security pension system . |
| 15 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 16 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 17 | The Government is now considering proposals to replace the present domestic rate , based on the occupation of property , which many consider to be inequitable , by some form of community charge levied on individual residents . |
| 18 | Only when we have established the facts will we be in a position to make moves to change the situation , and we need your assistance to establish the present position . |
| 19 | The paper on the government of Northern Ireland describes the present structure and also reviews experience in three other countries with community problems , the Netherlands , Belgium , and Switzerland . |
| 20 | There are , however , major forces at work sustaining the present occlusion of research and higher education . |
| 21 | On the situation in South Africa , the Council deplored the present phase of serious violence but welcomed " further indications … that the process of change already begun is going ahead " , and decided to lift its ban on new investments in South Africa [ see also p. 37910 ] . |
| 22 | Empiricism reproduces the present world … . |
| 23 | But timber consumption continues to exceed growth rate and , in a move to break this cycle , China is to execute a plan to reduce the present level of consumption and limit the use of timber for the next five years . |
| 24 | Most of us in England find the present French attitude despicable . |
| 25 | COSLA is expected to oppose the proposal to end the present discretionary power . |
| 26 | The accuracy of the result can be checked in a column showing the present value for that term . |
| 27 | An inquiry from Hilden Rec for a leasing arrangement at Glenmore has been turned down , and the Leisure and Allied Services Committee said the present demand for public pitches in the Borough ruled out any thoughts of a leasing arrangement . |
| 28 | It was this development and in particular the evidence given at the Ro-Ro inquiry which in due course prompted the council to bring the present proceedings . |
| 29 | There are five ways in which the consumer will benefit : a new legal Ombudsman to strengthen the present inadequate systems for handling complaints against solicitors and barristers ; cheaper conveyancing through banks and building societies being allowed to provide a one-stop house purchase service ; a new right for consumers to negotiate ‘ no-win no-fee ’ agreements with their legal advisers ; and more access to justice both by redistributing chunks of High Court work to county courts , plus extending solicitors ' rights of audience to the higher courts . |
| 30 | We can no longer wait for recovery to bail us out … 1993 looks no better than 1992 , so we must restructure our cost base to fit the present size of our business |