Example sentences of "[verb] [art] present [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 2 | I agree that , in handling the present situation after the issue of the Lockerbie warrants , we need to keep in close touch both with Arab friends and European partners , and that is what we are doing . |
| 3 | The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use . |
| 4 | As any changes to the Parish Council 's bank accounts must be authorised by the Parish Councillors I would ask you to continue the present arrangement until they have had a chance to discuss any alterations you might suggest . |
| 5 | This draft , which has 130 articles , would abolish the present parliament and the post of vice-president . |
| 6 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |
| 7 | The model shows that unless there is ‘ compensatory management ’ , then damming the rivers will turn the lake saline , reduce its level , kill the present vegetation and effectively banish the birds . |
| 8 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 9 | The paper on the government of Northern Ireland describes the present structure and also reviews experience in three other countries with community problems , the Netherlands , Belgium , and Switzerland . |
| 10 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 11 | The parish council acknowledge the need to replace the present structure but have not yet considered the details . ’ |
| 12 | These more remote areas were ‘ dying ’ agriculturally as they could neither keep the present generation nor attract ‘ new blood ’ . |
| 13 | Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . |
| 14 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 15 | His voice was sardonic again — he had noted the present tense when she had spoken of her poor ‘ dead ’ papa ! |
| 16 | However as Pacione ( 1984,145 ) observes : ‘ few models have been constructed to explain the population turnaround ’ , but out of these the model produced by Lewis and Maund ( 1976 ) and shown in Figure 5.4 may fit the present situation as described by Moseley ( 1983 ) in Table 5.4 the most closely . |
| 17 | As well as challenging the justification for piecemeal projects at a local level , especially where they would affect designated landscapes , we believe we need to develop a strategic overview of transport policy in Wales , questioning the present approach and proposing less environmentally damaging alternatives . |
| 18 | Yet in order to understand the present pattern and appearance of settlements , allowance has to be made for varying degrees of change occurring in the past . |
| 19 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 20 | If it is , he should hold the present attitude and stand by to lower the nose if the speed drops any further . |
| 21 | His actions were deliberately intended to demonstrate the present reality and radical nature of the Kingdom . |
| 22 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 23 | The hon. and learned Gentleman can rightly say , ’ Leave the present offence and just increase the penalties , ’ but it would be difficult , in respect of the offence of taking and driving away , to prove culpability for the aggravated offence and the damage that followed . |
| 24 | It needs to be laid down what can and what can not be discussed by an Apex Conference , my branch wish to remove the present restriction and ask for your support . |
| 25 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 26 | The Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London was established in 1957 ‘ to examine the present system and working of local government in the Greater London area ; to recommend whether any , and if so what , changes in the local government structure and the distribution of local authority functions in the area , or in any part of it , would better secure effective and convenient local government … ’ |
| 27 | By this time Coxe had shifted his interests further south to the province of ‘ Carolana ’ — covering the present North and South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , and Louisiana — which had been granted by Charles I to Sir Robert Heath [ q.v. ] , attorney-general , in 1629 . |
| 28 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |