Example sentences of "[verb] a present [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Though set in a biblical past , the poem used the popular application of typology to indicate a present importance .
2 All costs are expressed in 1989/90 prices , and where costs have been incurred beyond the first year , then the Treasury 's recommended discount rate of 6% has been applied to obtain a present value estimate .
3 As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power .
4 Rank Organisation ( owner of 49% of Rank Xerox and a variety of leisure activities ) has issued an 8.25p convertible preference that has a present price of 94p , giving a gross yield of 11.7% .
5 Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m .
6 Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today .
7 If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end .
8 Britain , a few years ago , denied extradition to Italy of a convicted terrorist , saying piously that ‘ his personal conduct ’ was not ‘ such as to constitute a present threat to one of the fundamental interests of society ’ .
9 Mm , so they 're , you 're doing a present value expression .
10 There 's also a ‘ back-up supervisor ’ which can be set to prompt you to start a present back-up routine .
11 Here the resulting effect is to emphatically assert a present state .
12 They 're , yes , they 're , they 're making a present value of
13 The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland .
14 To act in the heat of passion is to perpetuate a present state , not to initiate a new one ; for something new to come in , space has to be made .
15 If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether .
16 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 .
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