Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 2 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 3 | I have received with great satisfaction the loyal and dutiful expression of your thanks for the Speech with which I opened the present Session of Parliament . |
| 4 | I believe the present system could be improved and would be grateful for any examples of assessment forms used by practitioners in similar areas . |
| 5 | ‘ I decide the present case upon a single ground , namely , that there are no facts set out in the statement of claim which fix the defendants with liability for breach of duty as carriers of passengers . |
| 6 | Thus , although I use the present tense , the physical organization of communities and the economic organization that I discuss are more relevant to the pre-1970 period . |
| 7 | I think the present Government has a lot to answer for . |
| 8 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 9 | I 'm capable of being tempted by a desirable woman — though I must say I have no present intention of succumbing to that temptation . ’ |
| 10 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 11 | The position of local authorities was also left unclear until the next case , which represents the present law . |
| 12 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 13 | To bring that about in a timescale which meets the present crisis for world peace would be likely to create the very wars we are seeking to avoid . |
| 14 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 15 | As Lord Simon recognised in Morgan , it is the role which the criminal law has in protecting girls under 16 from sexual exploitation and abuse which justifies the present law . |
| 16 | RP spoke to his paper which summarised the present situation . |
| 17 | This may take the form of a genealogy which enables the present generation to see its own experience prefigured in the struggles of its ancestors , or to trace an unbroken line of descent to certain common codes and practices which define its ‘ roots ’ . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that a leading official of the NUT should dismiss the White Paper which collates the present government 's curricular initiatives as ‘ a dose of centralist rhetoric ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was Robinson , an alderman of the city of York , who built the present Hall , as a home and , more importantly , as a place to entertain his fellow aldermen in style . |
| 21 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 22 | It was surrendered to the Crown in 1539 , and sold by Henry VIII to Lawrence Washington , who built the present house . |
| 23 | Have you met the present Sultan in Cairo ? |
| 24 | You are bristling with anticipation as you know the present contract which Plastic Foods has with Clearprint , your closest competitor , is up for renewal . |
| 25 | It was therefore natural that it should have been Braque who solved the present problem , largely a technical one , of finding a new , easier means of representing the new concepts of pictorial form and space in all their fullness and complexity . |
| 26 | There 's also a ‘ back-up supervisor ’ which can be set to prompt you to start a present back-up routine . |
| 27 | More part-time farmers saw this as a benefit rather than the full-time family farmer , who saw the present production levels as being near their maximum . |
| 28 | Yet the economic situation will not by itself defeat the present regime . |
| 29 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 30 | She said the present structure of ‘ regular , structured and systematic ’ inspections must be kept , and said considerable abuse had been found in schools . |