Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There is no chance of maintaining the present state of affairs , " he added . |
| 2 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 5 | MAX : Stop using the present tense . |
| 6 | I agree that , in handling the present situation after the issue of the Lockerbie warrants , we need to keep in close touch both with Arab friends and European partners , and that is what we are doing . |
| 7 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |
| 8 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 9 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 10 | The problem in understanding the present structure of the universe is that , after evolving for 10 billion years following the big bang , it has become very clumpy and matter has aggregated into galaxies and clusters and superclusters of galaxies . |
| 11 | Diagnosing the present state . |
| 12 | I can only record that prisoners and prison staff displayed a rare unanimity in condemning the present system . |
| 13 | It is a common enough feature of Hebrew poetry to make it worth asking of every parallelistic couplet whether any gain in understanding may result from applying the present concept to it . |
| 14 | The owners of 150 distilleries have now agreed to sell power to the state electricity companies , and estimate that by replacing the present steam turbines with gas turbines they can increase their output from 200 MW to 3,000 MW in 15 years . |
| 15 | To avoid such a catastrophe they offer IBM a 12 point set of minimum recommendations , which include replacing the present leadership with ‘ technically current ’ managers and board members raided from younger companies , be tougher on salaries and golden handshakes , slow investment on traditional systems , give its semiconductor business complete perestroika , stop losing money on PCs or stop making them , and commercialise more of its research . |
| 16 | A multi-circuit pylon capable of carrying the existing line and the new cable and therefore replacing the present line rather than adding to it could also be considered for parts of the route . |
| 17 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 18 | Thanks again for Edward Barnsley , and all the best for the one that 's causing the present overload of work . |
| 19 | There are , however , major forces at work sustaining the present occlusion of research and higher education . |
| 20 | Simply describing , assessing and costing the present pattern of services was a massive task , but in addition new information and accounting systems for contract monitoring , invoicing and capital charging had to be installed and capital asset registers compiled for every asset worth more than £2,000 . |
| 21 | That maximising the present value of the firm will also maximise shareholder wealth depends on certain assumptions about the efficiency of the stock market ( ’ the efficient market hypothesis ’ ) . |
| 22 | " The European Council reviewed progress on ratification of the Treaty on European Union signed on Feb. 7 and reaffirmed the importance of concluding the process as soon as possible , without reopening the present text … |
| 23 | Your Lordships then invited the parties to consider whether they wished to present further argument on the question whether it was appropriate for the House ( under Practice Statement ( Judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1234 ) to depart from previous authority of this House which forbids reference to such material in construing statutory provisions and , if so , what guidance such material provided in deciding the present appeal . |
| 24 | The present colony was first recorded in 1959 and has moved twice , occupying the present site in 1968 . |
| 25 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 26 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 27 | Furthermore , do the recommendations for reform presently advocated come anywhere near improving the present situation ? |
| 28 | On 3 March the Adjutant-General of the army directed a standing committee of general officers to report inter alia whether the instruction at the College was such as to furnish the means of improving the present practice of farriery . |
| 29 | How effective has occupational pension provision been in removing the present generation of ‘ young elderly ’ women , currently aged 60–75 , from poverty ? |
| 30 | Multiple use of easier-to-get conventional credit cards could have the effect of removing the present credit limit long-stop defence against overspending , without replacing it by the specially stringent customer vetting process which unlimited credit surely needs . |