Example sentences of "[verb] [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The sinking of a laden supertanker would make the present slick look small indeed . |
| 32 | Mr Greenwood , who was the main architect of the currency link , thinks the present rate is about right . |
| 33 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |
| 34 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 35 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 36 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 37 | Can he assure us that he would not be prepared to support the present EMU treaty , which does not contain the provisions and safeguards that he has mentioned ? |
| 38 | The position of local authorities was also left unclear until the next case , which represents the present law . |
| 39 | The common Unix desktop that represents the present manifestation of the Common Open Software Environment , COSE , is just a first step on the road to a much more comprehensive common Unix environment . |
| 40 | 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 ) . |
| 41 | Okay so if we just summoned this area right , that area there represents the present value of the discounted stream of income . |
| 42 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 43 | Without that , British Coal will be unable to continue the present level of redundancy pay or the redeployment , retraining or job placement schemes that it supports . |
| 44 | ‘ The effect of deleting this subclause will be to continue the present basis of taxation of services , namely the cost to the employer of providing the service . |
| 45 | The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use . |
| 46 | As any changes to the Parish Council 's bank accounts must be authorised by the Parish Councillors I would ask you to continue the present arrangement until they have had a chance to discuss any alterations you might suggest . |
| 47 | ( McGinn , 1982 , pp. 121–2 ) Even acute defences of Descartes ' argument for an ego ( B. Williams , 1978 , pp. 95–100 ) , prove to be ineffective ( Parfit , 1984 , pp. 225–6 ) , but their failure does not affect the present view . |
| 48 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |
| 49 | At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law . |
| 50 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 51 | The problem in understanding the present structure of the universe is that , after evolving for 10 billion years following the big bang , it has become very clumpy and matter has aggregated into galaxies and clusters and superclusters of galaxies . |
| 52 | Diagnosing the present state . |
| 53 | He had telephoned the present Archdeacon of Woodborough , a valued friend , the friend who had indeed suggested and supported his application , and he had said that he simply did not know why Peter had been turned down , he had no idea . |
| 54 | This may or may not include the present health promotion and education work of health educators as we now understand it . |
| 55 | With the larger numbers to be attained , attempts will be made to correlate our findings with various clinical features and environmental factors , to analyse the meaning of the association we described the present study . |
| 56 | These are a practical necessity and it would be quite impossible to meet the present demand for meat and dairy products , except in certain rural areas , from the products of traditional farms that were the order of the day in Europe and North America up until the Second World War : |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Next year , he has pledged to increase the present company car taxing scales by 8pc , but from 1995 drivers will pay tax according to the manufacturer 's list price for each car . |
| 59 | I can only record that prisoners and prison staff displayed a rare unanimity in condemning the present system . |
| 60 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |