Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Office consultation document on plans to dismantle the present two-tier structure of councils makes proposals for fundamental political and administrative reform in a quite cursory way , they state . |
| 2 | Those last few words describe the present position . |
| 3 | The simulation routine will be developed further to facilitate comprehensive analyses of radical reforms as well as of changes in the parameters underlying the present tax/benefit system . |
| 4 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 5 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 6 | The Government is now considering proposals to replace the present domestic rate , based on the occupation of property , which many consider to be inequitable , by some form of community charge levied on individual residents . |
| 7 | Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m . |
| 8 | As a result , the numbers of further education teachers undertaking these courses grew from 795 in 1975 to 1,207 in 1981 and there is reason to believe that the demand for places exceeds the present supply . |
| 9 | ‘ The situation and the fertility of this bottom gave rise to reflections touching the present state of the labouring classes , who , in dungeon-like cellars , and bye allies , eke out a miserable existence , while with infinitely greater comfort to themselves , and honour and profit to the affluent , they might enjoy , in vast happiness , such peaceful and sequestered abodes as Gillerthwaite . ’ |
| 10 | The remains of these figures resemble the present west pediment in style . |
| 11 | There is , in theory , an 8-week time limit between committal and trial on indictment , but that rule may be dispensed with by the Crown Court and the following figures indicate the present position . |
| 12 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 13 | Aside from the logistics of creating new books and materials to replace the present South African-produced materials , there will have to be a major push to upgrade and retrain teachers . |
| 14 | Routine decisions allow the present system to keep going to keep the status quo . |
| 15 | ‘ Orgasm , organism , organisation : the coming together of life forces to overwhelm the present constraints and repressions . |
| 16 | Tory councillors think the present plans are unworkable and would pedestrianise Northgate instead . |
| 17 | But while the verdict of party members there was inconclusive , more than 80 per cent of them supported moves to abolish the present hierarchical structure which distinguishes communist parties from their Western counterparts . |
| 18 | Forbes was inspired in this direction by the work of Charles Lyell , whose uniformitarian approach to geology stressed the use of observable processes to explain the present state of the earth ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 19 | In a Parliamentary reply I said : ‘ The Government have no plans to change the present system of financing the National Health Service largely from taxation and will continue to review the scope for introducing more cost consciousness and consumer choice and for increasing private provision which is already expanding . ’ |
| 20 | I have no plans to change the present arrangements . |
| 21 | The Government have no plans to change the present public holiday arrangements , although we shall continue to keep the situation under review . |
| 22 | There is anger here about Britain 's attempts to influence the present situation . |
| 23 | The various devices used by the courts to maintain the present position will be discussed below . |
| 24 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 25 | Such measures constituted the present Government 's heritage , when it took office in 1979 . |
| 26 | Some of these trends predated the present government . |
| 27 | Harrison and others defend the present system with another argument . |
| 28 | But both are attempts to make the present transparent to a more inclusive and fluid sense of time and consequence " ( APERTURE , No.98 ) . |
| 29 | The bill also allows the Lord Chancellor to make rules restricting the present automatic right of appeal to the Court of Appeal in some types of case . |