Example sentences of "to the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 2 | You have to ask yourselves some searching questions , particularly about the quality of your relationship prior to the present state of emergency . |
| 3 | Physiological disorders , like cancer in humans and animals ( according to the present state and progress in scientific knowledge and understanding ) , are not diseases caused by other life forms like bacteria , bacilli , fungus or virus ( although cancer opinion is beginning to waver with regard to virus ) . |
| 4 | I have nothing to add to the present state of knowledge on plans for Portland and I have no knowledge that the EH101 utility variant is to be used in the air-sea rescue role , at least in the predictable future . |
| 5 | On the former Yugoslavia , the summit declared that " although all parties have contributed , in their own way , to the present state of affairs , by far the greatest share of the responsibility falls on the Serbian leadership and the Yugoslav army controlled by it " . |
| 6 | Disputes over the impact of the mine , and the distribution ofits profits , provoked the uprising in 1988 , leading to the present state of de facto independence from Papua New Guinea . |
| 7 | We conclude by considering alternatives to the present system of local taxation . |
| 8 | When measured against these criteria most of the alternatives to the present system are less than convincing . |
| 9 | One alternative to the present system of allowances would be to pay councillors a full-time salary . |
| 10 | Thus , a study ( Korpi , 1978 , p. 332 ) of the unions and politics in Sweden concluded that , with the strengthening of their collective power base the levels of aspiration of wage-earners are likely to increase ( in a political sense ) , ‘ extending to issues of control over work and production ’ ; while another study ( Gallie , 1978 , p. 299 ) brought out important differences between British and French workers in their attitudes to the present system of industrial production , with the latter taking a much more political view : |
| 11 | One regular meeting place was at the Redeswire or Reidswire , close to the present Border crossing of Carter Bar . |
| 12 | It is assumed that because of a basin that is still strongly subsiding , the degree of coalification will not yet have reached the equilibrium which would relate to the present depth and temperature , and that gas generation and accumulation are still taking place here . |
| 13 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 14 | of allotting land to the present tiller , land owned by the tiller should not be drawn upon for redistribution . |
| 15 | When rented land is drawn upon for distribution proper consideration sh should be given to the present tiller . |
| 16 | In the present case the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 refused leave to the present petitioner , Strathmore Group Ltd. , to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 . |
| 17 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 18 | Instead he kept to the present subject . |
| 19 | The Centre 's displays illustrate the changing landscape from geological times to the present date . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will state the number of male and female unemployed in Wales for 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 and to the present date . |
| 21 | However , it suggests certain alterations to the present scope of the offence . |
| 22 | For example , where possible imperatives will be interpreted as relevant to the present interaction , and thus as requests to implement some action at the present time . |
| 23 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |
| 24 | If the project does not get into gear now and if we go back to the drawing board , it will be decades before we get another scheme that is worked through to the present level . |
| 25 | English law might be said to recognize a right to self-determination , inasmuch as suicide is no longer a crime , but that right does not yield a clear answer to the present difficulty . |
| 26 | The famous mithraeum was not built from scratch but was adapted from a grotto/nymphaeum , the remains of which are still attached to the present structure to a height of twelve metres . |
| 27 | The 20th century has seen a steady decline to the present total of 31,801 ( 1981 census ) with particular areas showing local reversals e.g. Benbecula with the advent of the rocket range in South Uist . |
| 28 | We did we did manage to recruit nine during the year but we lost er four by death as Kerry has mentioned , three by removal or one or two elderly people moving into er sheltered or into homes and things like that where they 're no longer contactable , and there were ten lapses making a total of seventeen that we lost er as against nine new members recruited , which meant that we have a nett have a nett loss of eight from a hundred and four to the present total of ninety six . |
| 29 | Or it may be testimony relevant to the present conversation . |
| 30 | One organist remarked to the present writer on the ‘ marvellous ’ Fanfare for organ , for which he also wrote a Sonata ( 1971 ) . |