Example sentences of "on the present [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly , the common achievements of unknown people in the past were seized as the artefacts of a national genius , part of a struggle to invent and impose a cultural consistency both on the past and on the present inhabitants , in contrast to the heterogeneity of benighted foreigners .
2 But even in relation to those who are ultimately convicted , the fact that many of them go on to receive a non-custodial sentence — in 1999 the figures were 19.4 per cent in the Crown Court and 25.9 per cent in the magistrates ' courts — calls into question the need and justification for pre-trial detention on the present scale , particularly in view of the deplorable conditions in which most remand prisoners are held .
3 They aim to establish a working system that can cope with arrivals on the present scale .
4 On April 3 the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali reported to the Security Council that " it is unlikely that the UN will be able for much longer to maintain a peacekeeping presence in Cyprus on the present scale " .
5 Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate .
6 On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow .
7 Nor , on the present occasion when the machine does produce a bar , is there a circumstance that necessitates that .
8 The President must offer the three main party leaders in turn a three-day mandate to try to form another government based on the present parliament .
9 I reject the hon. Gentleman 's criticism , and I can reassure him on the present position .
10 That was an uncharacteristic and , I have to assume , an unintended attack by the hon. Gentleman on the present management qualities of the Foresterhill group of hospitals .
11 I do not therefore consider that I should be departing from the Vice-Chancellor 's decision by reaching a different conclusion on the present Act .
12 But on the present approach the search for universal standards is irrelevant to the objectivity of right and wrong ; it is in the nature of standards , which must alter with changing conditions and vary in stringency and applicability to particular cases , to be both a help and a hindrance to discovering the objective worth of a particular act .
13 Opposition to any ban comes from South Africa , Zimbabwe and Botswana , which want the international regulatory agency to build on the present system of licensing and quotas .
14 Biotechnology executives see the plan as a substantial improvement on the present system , in which the government analyses every proposed planting in a process that can take four months .
15 Indeed , advocates of floating have frequently argued that the need for fewer rules , and reduced formal cooperation , confers an important advantage on the present system over its predecessor .
16 It would be better to operate on the present system and to get that right than to have a discriminatory cow premium .
17 It is a sad reflection on the present state of constitutional monarchy in this country that one so driven to do his best for the good of mankind , as he sees it , should think , indeed know , that he can not do so as king .
18 Lavin , it being unarguable on the present state of the law that the policemanliness of the victim is a circumstance to which mens rea runs .
19 The focus in this section will be on the present state of the modernized industrial structure as represented by developments on the Chirton and Tyne Tunnel industrial estates in North Shields and on the industrial estates in Cramlington .
20 Mr. Geraint Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the present state of the Health Service in Wales .
21 I feel that we rely too much on the present state of affairs , too much on uniformitarianism , when interpreting the fossil record , especially in those groups that are now completely extinct or but a shadow of their former selves .
22 This questionnaire included questions on the present history of abdominal pain , stool withholding , constipation , frequency and consistency of bowel movements , size of the bowel movements , and if the bowel movements occasionally clogged the toilet .
23 Whilst this provision would be an improvement on the present law , threats may not always be easy to establish .
24 There was nothing bearing on the present question , whether a release by accord and satisfaction of a claim for rent against an assignee would release the original lessee and other covenantors .
25 The £300.24 figure is an increase of £24.76 per person or around 9pc on the present level , and well up on the Government 's estimate of £257 .
26 In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data .
27 This decision throws no light on the present issue , since the order of the court , although imposing no punishment , was nevertheless a final adjudication and disposal of the case .
28 The ad hoc nature of much of the Scottish research is highlighted , and a call is made for further research on the present participation of adults in Scottish higher education .
29 Despite the unremitting hostility of the Opposition Front-Bench team , I am glad to say that the majority group on the present Liverpool city council , in contrast to its predecessor , is showing interest in a housing action trust and my Department is discussing the matter with it .
30 Erm that seven thousand e those seven thousand vehicles , is that the through traffic element on the present day A sixty one ?
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