Example sentences of "from our present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 2 | Since the relationships were all in fives , one could tell if a particular category was missing from our present knowledge and predict roughly what kind of new organism would eventually be discovered to fill the gap . |
| 3 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 4 | We were stunned when she named it , as it 's the village where we used to live , a mile from our present home . |
| 5 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 6 | This year the last four students from our present training courses took the Medau Teachers ' Examination on 11th June and we are happy to report that all passed and are now qualified Medau Teachers . |
| 7 | A world in which the behaviour of others was the same , but the mental life blank or absent , would be , to us , indistinguishable from our present world . |
| 8 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 9 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |