Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you say slightly larger will it be more visible or , I mean the present one is partially hidden in actual fact . |
| 2 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 3 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 4 | I want a present Ian . |
| 5 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 6 | I have received with great satisfaction the loyal and dutiful expression of your thanks for the Speech with which I opened the present Session of Parliament . |
| 7 | I assume the present senior chief inspector will produce his annual report next year . |
| 8 | I believe the present main warning is that they should not be used with ‘ canmotors ’ , and the May issue of Continental Modeller reviewing a German-made locomotive quotes the accompanying leaflet as saying that it is powered by a ‘ Faulhaber ’ motor which must not be used with ‘ pulse power units ’ . |
| 9 | I believe the present system could be improved and would be grateful for any examples of assessment forms used by practitioners in similar areas . |
| 10 | Of these , Wild and Horenstein ( ) are undeniably impressive , but I find the present performances have an even greater sweep to them . |
| 11 | ‘ I decide the present case upon a single ground , namely , that there are no facts set out in the statement of claim which fix the defendants with liability for breach of duty as carriers of passengers . |
| 12 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 13 | Thus , although I use the present tense , the physical organization of communities and the economic organization that I discuss are more relevant to the pre-1970 period . |
| 14 | I think the present Government has a lot to answer for . |
| 15 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 16 | I 'm capable of being tempted by a desirable woman — though I must say I have no present intention of succumbing to that temptation . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The position of local authorities was also left unclear until the next case , which represents the present law . |
| 19 | In my Working Group 's recommendations for the teaching of literature we tried to balance the arguments for national unity with the need for a curriculum which respected the present cultural diversity of our society ( the same desire for unity and diversity underpins our recommendations on Standard English and dialects ) . |
| 20 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 21 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 22 | To bring that about in a timescale which meets the present crisis for world peace would be likely to create the very wars we are seeking to avoid . |
| 23 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 24 | In following the above approaches , there may be a tendency to design in terms of applications which mirror the present requirements of the business . |
| 25 | As Lord Simon recognised in Morgan , it is the role which the criminal law has in protecting girls under 16 from sexual exploitation and abuse which justifies the present law . |
| 26 | RP spoke to his paper which summarised the present situation . |
| 27 | This may take the form of a genealogy which enables the present generation to see its own experience prefigured in the struggles of its ancestors , or to trace an unbroken line of descent to certain common codes and practices which define its ‘ roots ’ . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that a leading official of the NUT should dismiss the White Paper which collates the present government 's curricular initiatives as ‘ a dose of centralist rhetoric ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |