Example sentences of "[noun prp] to the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also took courses in Continental , European and American Drama ( from Ibsen to the present day ) ; and English Prose from Francis Bacon to the Present ( which included both fiction and non-fiction ) . |
| 2 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 3 | Many modern commentators , from Burke , Hamilton and Madison to the present day , have frankly seen the device of representation as a means of limiting popular participation and control , and of retaining the day-to-day powers of government in the hands of a ( preferably enlightened ) elite . |
| 4 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 5 | From the time of the resurrection of handmade table ware in the United Kingdom to the present day , the booms in sales of craft ware follows closely the introductions of major technological changes and their ever increasingly felt effect on all aspects of life . |
| 6 | The series will cover the history of painting in Britain from Holbein to the present day , in its wider context of European art and its development through the 19th and 20th century . |
| 7 | Ex. 21 as there is an unlimited number of models to be found among the works of the great masters of orchestration from Haydn to the present day . |
| 8 | The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . |
| 9 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 10 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 11 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |