Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born out of a need to have some form of remote means to neutralise a device , it has been developed throughout the present campaign to its current form , the Mark 8 . |
| 2 | Finniston believes that the enterprise culture that has been fostered by the present government has to some extent fuelled a disregard for social responsibility . |
| 3 | The flat here being offered for sale has been occupied by the present owners since new and is presented in excellent order throughout . |
| 4 | I 'm delighted to learn that his advice has been sought in the present enterprise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | New Delhi rather than Bombay has been selected as the present venue as sales taxes are lower in that city . |
| 7 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 8 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 9 | However , for reasons previously stated these have not been used in the present design . |
| 10 | Co-occurrence data has been used by the present project ; the data having been collected from a number of corpora rather than LDOCE . |
| 11 | When you look at that mausoleum , with its granite monsters biting into the construction , then you feel you have been transported into the present day situation . |
| 12 | No such argument has been advanced in the present case , and their Lordships need say nothing about it . |
| 13 | The question then arises as to whether an error of law has been shown in the present case . |
| 14 | As it has been shown in the present study , the normal squamous columnar junction does not correspond to the distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter , and it is located in the midportion of this sphincter , at a mean distance of 17 mm from its distal end measured by manometry . |
| 15 | Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what percentage of collieries have been closed under the present Government , and what percentage were closed under the last Labour Government ? |
| 16 | Highways made the point that the yellow-line alterations and refuge islands are based on the present stop positions and they would prefer that these not be altered until we have experience of the new arrangements in operation . |
| 17 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 18 | He knows very well , because he is against a single currency in principle , like his predecessor , the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) , who clearly expressed his views — which , I think , are shared by the present Chancellor — in an article in one of the tabloid newspapers . |
| 19 | One church which has been restored in the present century , belonged to the Augustinian order of white canons . |
| 20 | Recommendations for reducing or eliminating the upland agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK are derived in the present chapter . |
| 21 | Control to rest with the officer commanding L Detachment and not with any outside body superimposed for the purpose of coordination , the need for which will not arise should effect be given to the present proposals … . |
| 22 | When rented land is drawn upon for distribution proper consideration sh should be given to the present tiller . |
| 23 | The advantage of this approach would be that it would enable a mixed economy to be operated i.e. some institutions be validated in the present way ; , others who were ‘ chartered ’ would not necessarily be accredited for all their courses in that their courses would be validated in the present ways . |
| 24 | The advantage of this approach would be that it would enable a mixed economy to be operated i.e. some institutions be validated in the present way ; , others who were ‘ chartered ’ would not necessarily be accredited for all their courses in that their courses would be validated in the present ways . |
| 25 | Moreover , while restrictive licence conditions which might be justified under the present quota system might lose their justification if that system developed into a more integrated system for the management of fishery sources , the same would not be the case with restrictions on the registration of vessels . |
| 26 | two mental hospitals [ St Wulstan 's and Powick ] each catering for about 200 patients situated some nine miles apart in the same district can no longer be justified in the present economic climate . |
| 27 | The last type of critic to be distinguished in the present chapter will be the theoretician . |
| 28 | One other provision , the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 , will be considered in the present chapter . |
| 29 | The phase of shock and somatic distress is normally followed by a restless searching , mixed with anger and irritability towards the deceased , and any one else who might be blamed for the present distress . |
| 30 | For convenience , biographies will be included in the present chapter , while catalogues will be treated in the next . |