Example sentences of "[adv] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the present Government consciously targeted the incomes of older people for reductions , as the basis of its restructuring of the social security system in April 1988 . |
| 2 | First find out how long the present syllabus has been in force and try to obtain for yourself as many past papers as possible set to that syllabus . |
| 3 | Prof Villeri said there was no way of telling how long the present eruption would last . |
| 4 | Thus financially and strategically his wife 's claim made good political sense to Henry II , but naturally the present Count of Toulouse was not going to be dispossessed without a fight . |
| 5 | Inevitably perhaps the present style of objective test concentrates on the general rules and definitions , and the pupils resent time not spent on revising these . |
| 6 | Perhaps the present age must beware of an alternative ‘ scandal ’ , not without precedent in expressionism 's heyday : the flowering of a new indiscriminateness . |
| 7 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the present system can not continue . |
| 9 | Thus the present situation is confused . |
| 10 | Thus the present volume has a well defined , and relatively vacant , niche at which to aim . |
| 11 | However , the present winds on Venus are acting to increase the retrograde rate of spin , and thus the present rotation of Venus may be a balance between the tidal forces , which depend on the Sun 's gravitational field , and the winds , which depend on solar radiation . |
| 12 | The fact that the tropics appear to have remained at approximately the present temperature despite major changed in the Equator-to-pole temperature difference ( and the associated heat flux out of the tropics ) strongly suggests the presence of some stabilizing mechanism for the tropics . |
| 13 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | Patently the present situation is working and therefore that 's part of it and what I would say is that that this additional policy if it is n't necessary because there there is n't any development pressure , then what is its purpose . |
| 15 | Who physically the present Prince of Wales resembles . |
| 16 | Though Reagan and Congress may disagree over the amount of money that government should spend , alarm over the present state of US science education is general . |
| 17 | This meant that systems of kin terms often reflected , not the present state of affairs , but the previous one . |
| 18 | On the whole it is not the present fashion for public companies to complicate their capital structures by having a large number of share classes — though much ingenuity is displayed in devising the most attractive methods of marketing issues and in creating types of company securities , other than shares but with rights to convert into shares . |
| 19 | It is not the present intention to point to inconsistencies , in order to undermine the revolutionary claims . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend 's suggestion is not the present intention of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 21 | Whether or not the present library symbol and logo campaigns achieve the same success and identity , is rather early to say , but if the choice of symbol is a good and appealing one then it could bring the public library to wide attention on a host of everyday products , street-signs etc . |
| 22 | The respective eligibility rulings are : common eligibility ; maximum of two solicitors per firm ; and , finally the present criterion , ‘ substantial criminal experience ’ with no maximum number per firm . |
| 23 | However , such a decision on its own would hardly further the present aim of seeking to elucidate underlying issues . |
| 24 | Weber argued that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 25 | that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 26 | A second runway would more than double the present number of take-offs and landings . |
| 27 | The new ‘ Teletel Vitesse Rapide ’ will operate at a speed of 9,600bps , double the present rate . |
| 28 | Some clearly do so already ; hence the present state of affairs . |
| 29 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 30 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |