Example sentences of "[verb] to the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They always suggest to the present writer the taste of a ripe plum . |
| 2 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 3 | The minaret added to the present mosque is of brick and of a design to fit in with the rest of the church . |
| 4 | Or as time travellers returning to the present day from the future . |
| 5 | Women have long been politically active ; it is not something confined to the present wave of feminism . |
| 6 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 7 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 8 | The MCofS have objected to the present proposal , and although the deadline for objections will have passed before you read this , I would urge all walkers and climbers who enjoy the Cuillin Hills still to send their objections to Highland Regional Council , . |
| 9 | Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present . |
| 10 | Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time . |
| 11 | If I recall rightly I think that it 's not that long ago that the licence was transferred to the present holder . |
| 12 | Racing was transferred to the present site in Knavesmire in 1731 with prize money of £155 for a five day meeting . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | If the recommendations of the White Paper Working for patients are implemented according to the present timetable , then managers are going to have to decide whether to become primarily ‘ purchasers ’ or ‘ providers ’ of services . |
| 15 | A white paper containing a plan for single-tier local authorities is to be published in June or July according to the present timetable for council reform . |
| 16 | Giner adds that this phenomenon , common to the Southern European states , continues to be felt to the present day . |
| 17 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 18 | A niece took over the post office when she married , and it was moved to the present premises . |
| 19 | However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents . |
| 20 | The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site . |
| 21 | A proposal by producer countries to finance the plan , based on equal contributions from both sides via a levy system , was also rejected by the EC , which demanded that funds be drawn from existing assets — i.e. , in practice , from arrears owed to the present agreement by the two biggest producers , Côte d'Ivoire and Brazil . |
| 22 | A similar process of topic identification can contribute to the present project , by reinforcing the choice of words whose senses contain subject codes that have been identified as being representative of the overall text . |
| 23 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 24 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 25 | Indeed , they are able to predict the zero-density frequency to a precision of 4 x 10 -14 ; from the present data , and they outline several improvements that can be made to the present apparatus , which already has a stability better than many primary caesium standards . |
| 26 | Patrick O'Sullivan , whose Daimler stood at the elegant , twin-leaved front door below , turned to the present owner of the house and said , ‘ Who is that ? ’ |
| 27 | Ex exactly the same as going to the present day . |
| 28 | With almost all posts going to the present Shadows , interest centres on the choice of Lord Chancellor . |
| 29 | It has preserved to the present day its architectural setting and character , and its medieval town walls ( twelfth and fifteenth century ) are an exceptionally complete example of their period . |
| 30 | This was one of the more powerful myths leading to the present government 's keen interest in policies geared towards the encouragement of small firms . |