Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mm , so they 're , you 're doing a present value expression .
2 They 're , yes , they 're , they 're making a present value of
3 In the past , the main method of predicting population has been to extend the present curve .
4 They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict .
5 ‘ The effect of deleting this subclause will be to continue the present basis of taxation of services , namely the cost to the employer of providing the service .
6 I am excluding the present proceedings from consideration here , since they are entirely untypical of what I do . )
7 I told him that we were leaving the present trail at Reggane and going through In Salah and Tamanrasset .
8 Thanks again for Edward Barnsley , and all the best for the one that 's causing the present overload of work .
9 One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost .
10 However , whether or not a statutory definition of charity is introduced the present problems must not be exaggerated .
11 In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity .
12 To act in the heat of passion is to perpetuate a present state , not to initiate a new one ; for something new to come in , space has to be made .
13 9 There hovers in Working Class Childhood the ghostly presence of more decent and upright children , serving their time in the restriction of poverty and family solidarity : " the old defensive culture of poverty gave working class children … a sense of security which is denied the present generation … "
14 What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes .
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