Example sentences of "[noun pl] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases the present moment is being spoilt by fretting needlessly over past or future moments . |
| 2 | Schröder estimates that the detection rate is 2.5% , which is 15 times the present incidence of 1.4 new cases/1000 men aged 60 to 74 in England and Wales . |
| 3 | The contention of many is that the charge should be at three or four times the present level . |
| 4 | That 's about six times the present number . |
| 5 | Many calculated their wages not in the national currency , the dinar , but in deutschemarks at the rate of between 400 and 600 marks a month , three times the present average . |
| 6 | The net electrical output from the plant 's four units is 3498 megawatts — enough to supply 4.5 times the present power demand of Gothenburg , Sweden 's second-largest city . |
| 7 | If the luminosity increases beyond 10 38 ergs -1 , 1,000 times the present luminosity , the combination of small scale size and energetics would make the black hole model much more compelling . |
| 8 | I announced an increase of grant in aid of 10 per cent. , roughly two and a half times the present rate of inflation . |
| 9 | These qualifications made , there remains a set of findings difficult to reconcile with Howe 's ( 1986 ) proposition that ‘ the work controls the worker ’ — though admittedly this was advanced in a context which excluded the kind of organizational influences the present work has begun to tackle . |
| 10 | ( a ) Hereditary peers The present House of Lords is the product of the union legislation of 1800 and the House which it replaced was created by the union legislation of 1706 . |
| 11 | The current report questions the present use of a replacement plasticiser , acetyl tributyl citrate ( ATBC ) , which was developed for use in microwaves . |
| 12 | I think Britain is in a mess , I 'm ashamed of some of the things the present government have done . |
| 13 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 14 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 15 | In these regions the present depth of the top surface Carboniferous does not control the rank of coal : in the Bevergern 1 borehole , where it drops to 2550 m , the vitrinite reflectance is about the same ( 1.15% Rm ) as in the boreholes Münsterland 1 and Südkirchen 1 where the top Carboniferous lies at much shallower depths ( Südkirchen 1 at 806 m with Westphalian A ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Schools have been dealing in failure too long , and with the demographic and consumer pressures the present system is simply no longer viable . |
| 17 | In some of the above categories the present Publication Officer functions alone and covers both in-house production of information ( with the IT at her disposal ) and organises external production ( through HMSO and printers ) of publications . |