Example sentences of "[that] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The replies ( from 60 of those contacted ) suggested , the paper says , that ‘ there is concern among users that the present scope of the audit and the legal framework in which it is conducted militate against auditors successfully meeting the needs of shareholders and others with an interest in the audit process ’ . |
| 2 | I accept that the present convention has certain disadvantages for us . |
| 3 | Others even claim that the present knowledge of man and his mind is nil and that real culture will arise only out of the knowledge of the sequence of human DNA . |
| 4 | Equally , triumphalism of the dotty kind has not been in evidence at all ; nobody , for example , has let slip the belief that the present knowledge of genetics is so certain and detailed that the future of the human race can now be predicted . |
| 5 | It is likely that the present computer room will be used at least temporarily to house the central processing equipment . |
| 6 | ‘ But we will and really must change the bureaucracy , the remoteness of management , the impersonal care for patients , the frustrations of the staff and the failure to maintain high standards everywhere that the present way of running the service causes far too often . ’ |
| 7 | If Mao could sit up in his mausoleum and scan the elite quarters to the west of the Forbidden City , with X-ray vision to penetrate its vermilion walls , he would conclude that the present leadership should be Respected Tactically but Despised Strategically . |
| 8 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 9 | In 1934 it was still a struggle — a fridge was bought on hire purchase over two years — and the Professional missed being ‘ laid off ’ only by the Chairman 's casting vote , on the proposal ‘ that the present position of the Club was such he should move on ’ . |
| 10 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 11 | In all I am entirely satisfied that the present position , though much improved from the dreadful pre-June 1990 era , remains one in which the residents suffer a considerable disturbance from heavy goods vehicles . |
| 12 | Your committee considered various sitings and concluded that the present position is most suitable for the 3 large 1100 litre bins which are eventually to replace the exiting heterogeneous collection . |
| 13 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 14 | It should , I think , be emphasised that the present decision of your Lordships does not represent a breakthrough in relation to the principle against self-incrimination ; it is a decision on its own facts in the light of that principle . |
| 15 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Julian Thompson , Chairman of Sotheby 's Far East operation , explained that the present scheme evolved from a successful charity sale held in Bombay in 1989 . |
| 16 | NACAB 's fourth point is that the present scheme is deficient on grounds of equity . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the present law pays too great a regard to the need to preserve public order and does too little to facilitate peaceful protest , e.g. wide police powers to impose conditions to preserve the peace ; the restrictions on spontaneous demonstrations . |
| 18 | The Law Commissions in their 1987 report discussed the fact that the present law on acceptance means that a buyer can lose his right of rejection before he knows , or can know , that he has a right of rejection . |
| 19 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 20 | A proposal has been put forward that the nursery classes should be accommodated in the infant annexe building and that the present nursery building should be declared surplus to requirements . |
| 21 | Teichmüller and Teichmüller ( 1981 ) state that the present day geothermal gradient in the Ruhr area of Germany is 30°C/km which is comparable with the Southern North Sea estimates . |
| 22 | It has been argued that the present day focus of international law is upon disputes relating to parties ' interests in satisfying needs , and values , rather than upon formalistic attention to rights . |
| 23 | Sadly it is no longer true that the present day pattern of fields is much the same as that shown on enclosure maps . |
| 24 | I admit that the present recession is somewhat more complicated and is biting fairly hard in the south-east of England . |
| 25 | It is interesting that the present recession is much deeper in the south than in the north . |
| 26 | I should have thought that the present requirement of the whole civilised world is relatively simple . |
| 27 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 28 | It was agreed on all sides that the present home of the family is not appropriate for the plaintiff , despite the extensive works which have necessarily been carried out to it . |
| 29 | ‘ Friends of Killynure ’ fearing that , Killynure House will be closed despite claims that the present home subscribes fully to the criteria laid down in the consultative document for the provision of residential care for elderly people , now appeal to the fast growing community of Carryduff and surrounding areas to support the fight for the retention of the home by signing a petition against closure . |
| 30 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |