Example sentences of "to our present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this is not of importance in relation to our present consideration . |
| 3 | According to our present knowledge , this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock . |
| 4 | While it is true that , in most of them , a party with 10 per cent of the popular vote holds 100 per cent of the power , this is surely preferable to our present system , which condemns us to a lifetime of minority rule . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them is married to our present king , ’ Huy said quietly . |
| 6 | It is more of a denial of another answer , the facile solution to our present problems which calls for greater sums to be spent on social services in order to provide a world free from crime , disease and ignorance . |
| 7 | The religious implications of this are clear ; but to our present purpose we notice that the vagrants and the beggars lead us away from ‘ economic man ’ towards other kinds of existence . |
| 8 | In the Palaeozoic , corals looking generally similar to living reef corals may be only distantly related , if at all , to our present day fauna . |
| 9 | Its relevance to our present concern is as follows . |
| 10 | Thirdly , and perhaps most relevantly to our present concern , there is the more intellectual satisfaction to be had from extending . |
| 11 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 12 | These are not , however , the sort of figures most relevant to our present concern with proportionality . |
| 13 | It gave a feeling for the achievement of the human race in developing from primitive savages only fifteen thousand years ago to our present state . |
| 14 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the draft proposals on economic and monetary union and on political union involve far-reaching constitutional change to our present arrangements ? |
| 15 | YOUR editorial ‘ Home Truths ’ ( BT 17/8/93 ) together with map B ( BT page 2 20/5/93 ) point clearly to what is by far the best solution to our present predicament in this province ; viz re-partition . |
| 16 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
| 17 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 18 | It is only so understood , certainly , that they are relevant to our present business . |
| 19 | We thoroughly enjoy Dogs Today and try to pass on all the right things to do to our present scallywag , Monty , but he 's not impressed . |
| 20 | Oh yes , I used to live , we used to live in a three bedroomed semi in before we moved to our present house , and one Christmas Ken said why do n't all our family to us , which was his mother , his father , his elder brother , his wife , two little girls from them , Tony , Karen and their little one |
| 21 | And secondly , much more to our present purposes : |
| 22 | Yet this is exactly what we are now able to do , thanks to our present understanding of human evolution and in particular to the theory which explains the evolutionary acquisitions of man since he parted company with the ancestors of today 's great apes . |