Example sentences of "[adv] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 18 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 19 | However , such a decision on its own would hardly further the present aim of seeking to elucidate underlying issues . |
| 20 | Weber argued that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 21 | that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 22 | A second runway would more than double the present number of take-offs and landings . |
| 23 | The new ‘ Teletel Vitesse Rapide ’ will operate at a speed of 9,600bps , double the present rate . |
| 24 | Some clearly do so already ; hence the present state of affairs . |
| 25 | On the whole I do n't think so , I think probably the present government will , will get back quite easily , but it 's a possibility . |
| 26 | This analysis was not universally accepted , and it is clear that many preferred to tackle the problem of dishonesty through preventative action than to vacate the ‘ moral high ground ’ by abandoning or altering too radically the present basis of claim settlement . |
| 27 | In Aachen , Charles built not only a formal palace , but a huge basilica , some of which was incorporated into what is now the present cathedral . |
| 28 | But course now the present day they do n't do none of that , they drive the crane and only the crane , they do n't even clean the crane . |
| 29 | The market price of an asset is simply the present value of the income stream to which it entitles the owner . |
| 30 | As capital markets are not perfect , definitions vary from researcher to researcher and some things are better measured as a stock rather than a flow , so that documented wealth distributions are not simply the present value of all future income streams . |