Example sentences of "[prep] the present [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often worthwhile looking at methods the patient has previously tried to use for the present problem to see whether , with modification , these might be tried again . |
| 2 | It is to be hoped that all steam enthusiasts will perhaps make an effort to support this railway at some time during the present season to help to ensure that it remains in being into the future . |
| 3 | It was — is , I should say — an old concern , going back to the days of coastal ketches and collier brigs , and was founded by the great-grandfather of the present chairman to bring coal from the Tyne to London . |
| 4 | The change in emphasis was noted in 1893 by another Baptist minister , Thomas Morris : ‘ It is the fashion of the present day to exaggerate the importance and power of circumstances ’ , to put ‘ society ’ above individuals , whereas Christianity , he argued , ‘ must begin at the centre , and not at the circumference . ’ |
| 5 | The need for these movements shows the ineffectiveness and unwillingness of the present system to deal with issues central to the voter . |
| 6 | I was too bound up with the problems of the present moment to enjoy the luxury of retrospection . |
| 7 | It is the object of the present study to find this out and to apply the findings in teaching beginning and slow readers . |
| 8 | Any future extension would dovetail with the present scheme to extend pastoral care into the community . |
| 9 | once the strength of the new week 's material has been assessed , the next move is to decide which records will be removed from the present playlist to make room for the new ones . |
| 10 | Although low levels ( 1–7% ) of interstrand crosslinking have been reported for cisplatin ( 1 ) it is not possible from the present data to define the sequence specificity of such crosslinks . |
| 11 | Everyone accepted that the jurisdiction existed in both cases , and there was never any necessity until the present day to distinguish between the two types of jurisdiction . |
| 12 | At all events , Mr. Nicholls was content in the present case to proceed on the basis of the law as stated in Reg. v. Galbraith , and on that basis he submitted that the magistrate was entitled , on the evidence before him , to conclude that there was such evidence before him as would justify the committal of the applicant , the question of the reliability of Price 's evidence being a matter for the Swedish court . |
| 13 | It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so . |
| 14 | But any apparent acceptance of the interim government by the United Nations and other international organisations and states does not suffice in the present case to demonstrate that the interim government is the Government of the Republic of Somalia . |
| 15 | It might have been better in the present case to regard the omission to caution as a breach of the spirit of the Code rather than a breach of the Code itself . |
| 16 | ( 6–20 ) , may be seen in the present case to have the sign of |
| 17 | In my opinion it is not necessary in the present case to consider whether the unborn child was a person in law or at which stage she became a person . |
| 18 | It is of no assistance , however , to your Lordships in the present appeal to debate the finer points of Reg. v. Lawrence with a view to deciding whether the decision in this House ( although not that of the Court of Appeal ) can be justified on the special facts . |
| 19 | It is of some interest in the present study to note that senescence does not significantly decrease the leaf reflectance in the infra-red ; in the blue and red a rise occurs . |
| 20 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |
| 21 | ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover . |
| 22 | It is a fallacy at the present moment to believe that there are any quick cures for our monetary difficulties , least of all joining the ERM ( European exchange rate mechanism ) . |
| 23 | Well , not to kill the world , but they they there are enough bombs in existence at the present time to obliterate the world about three or four times over so we 're told , so we read no snow out here at all Danny is there ? |
| 24 | In my opinion it serves no useful purpose at the present time to seek to construe the relevant provisions of the Theft Act by reference to the report which preceded it , namely the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on Theft and Related Offences ( 1966 ) ( Cmnd. 2977 ) . |
| 25 | at the present time to photocopy a couple of extra ones so Angela can have one |
| 26 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 27 | The Primitive Methodist chapel on Westgate was built in 1871 to replace a smaller chapel on Quaker Lane , and a campaign is in progress at the present time to raise funds for its refurbishment . |
| 28 | It would be particularly appropriate at the present time to pay more attention to this aspect , and to obtain better information about crofters ' levels of living , including the subsistence component and remittances from emigrants . |
| 29 | An attempt has been made by the present writer to convey something of the lawless nature and the rough , tough frontierland conditions of post-Speranskii Siberia in his later chapter comparing Siberia to the American ‘ Wild West ’ and analysing the relationship between exile , vagrancy and crime in the region . |
| 30 | The move by the present government to encourage Schools to ‘ opt out ’ and take charge of their own funds , can only compound this . |