Example sentences of "[verb] no present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday Johnson Matthey — which announced pre-tax profits of £33.5million — said it ‘ has been authorised by Charter to say that Charter has no present intention of either buying or selling shares in the company . ’ |
| 2 | Yesterday Johnson Matthey — which announced pre-tax profits of £33.5million — said it ‘ has been authorised by Charter to say that Charter has no present intention of either buying or selling shares in the company . ’ |
| 3 | The Group has no present intention to dispose of the AUK Notes and therefore no tax provision has been made for the potential liability to corporation tax . |
| 4 | It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday . |
| 5 | This case is the most recent in a long line of cases involving the question whether , if the paper owner has no present use for the land , there can be any possession " adverse " to his rights . |
| 6 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 7 | Each of these future estates , though it gave no present right to possession or enjoyment , was treated as something already in existence , which could be disposed of and would descend ( so far as it is inheritable ) just like a present estate . |
| 8 | In the present case , the defendant was well aware that the council had acquired the plot in order to construct a road on it at some time in the future and meantime had no present use for the land . |
| 9 | I 'm capable of being tempted by a desirable woman — though I must say I have no present intention of succumbing to that temptation . ’ |