Example sentences of "[adj] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals , are expected to result in 25-30 councils , around half the present number . |
| 2 | That , Anno 1260 , or about 200 years after the Norman Conquest , the kingdom had 2,750,000 people , or half the present number ; so that the people of England have doubled in about 435 years last past ; |
| 3 | Several studies have shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide was as little as half the present concentration at the peak of the latest Ice Age , but it has not been clear if this is cause or effect . |
| 4 | With almost half the present team threatening to retire at the end of the season — and who can blame them if it means that they go out on a high note — this was excellent news . |
| 5 | As I have said , since the decision in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the present procedure by which the Secretary of State decides whether and when to release a prisoner serving a life sentence has been created . |
| 6 | Built by Sir Christopher Wren and consecrated in 1697 the present edifice replaces an even larger one which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London 31 years earlier . |
| 7 | A fifth CNAA Committee would be set up for Art and Design , and pending a reconstitution of the Council 's committees and boards in 1975 the present NCDAD members were being asked to serve as a nucleus of the future committee . |
| 8 | In the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) a church is recorded and most likely the present building is on the same site . |
| 9 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 10 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
| 11 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 12 | While this teaching method was mainly confined to higher education institutions in the 1960s and 1970s the present phase has seen the production of a larger number of CAL packages for schools . |
| 13 | 1 The present House of Lords is seen as a wrecking chamber with a built-in Conservative majority and a crippling power of delay that only exists to put a brake on a reforming Socialist government . |
| 14 | Matters did not improve , so on 7 July 1987 the present action was commenced , by which time the arrears amounted to £11,566 . |
| 15 | This was partly in response to a recommendation from the EEC to cut sulphur emissions to one-third the present level , a step which it has been estimated , would cost £4 billion in flue gas desulphurization equipment adding £700 million a year to the CEGB 's operating costs . |
| 16 | So er we 're still hovering around a hundred but instead of being four over the hundred the present total is ninety six by my reckoning . |
| 17 | Talking to reporters in Magherafelt , the scene of the latest bombing last night , Sir Patrick said he was satisfied the present security policy was adequate and he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 18 | The Reverend Kenneth Best conducted a mission in the autumn of 1988 which led to a deepening of the spiritual life for many and in June 1990 the present minister , the Reverend J Winston Good , was elected President-designate of the Methodist Church in Ireland and will take office as President in June 1991 . |