Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 2 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 3 | As one who admires much of what WTA has done and enjoys watching the best women players compete against each other , because the entertainment value they produce can often be tremendous , I was sad to see that apparently they still do not appreciate how relatively well off they are under the present set-up and how much they could stand to lose from open warfare in the game . |
| 4 | The historian , perhaps , can do little more than echo Disraeli 's pregnant remark in Sybil , Book IV , Chapter I : ‘ when parties are in the present state of equality , the Sovereign is no longer a mere pageant . ’ |
| 5 | There 's been recent criticism that too many Scots are in the present team . |
| 6 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
| 7 | This is what ‘ democratic socialism ’ ought to mean , however remote it may be from the present practices of the Labour Party in or out of office . |
| 8 | The new law will have the advantage that the prosecution will not be in the present difficulty ( referred to in paragraph 19 ) of deciding which of two mutually exclusive offences to charge . |
| 9 | On the contrary , they would have the normal reason for disregarding any belief or information on that score : that the law is the law and must be followed , no matter how unpopular it might be in the present climate of political opinion . |
| 10 | Must be in the PRESENT TENSE |
| 11 | The focus in this section will be on the present state of the modernized industrial structure as represented by developments on the Chirton and Tyne Tunnel industrial estates in North Shields and on the industrial estates in Cramlington . |
| 12 | The 16th was also moved from its 1908 place ( approximating to the present ) to become a longer version ( 250 yards ) of what is played today — i.e. the green being near the present ladies ' 17th tee box . |
| 13 | Robbie began , then remembered that it might be wiser if Fen thought of Hugh as being in the present tense rather than the past . |
| 14 | ‘ The conventions of the constitution now consist of customs which ( whatever their historical origin ) are at the present day maintained for the sake of ensuring the supremacy of the House of Commons , and ultimately , through the elective House of Commons , of the nation . |
| 15 | Many institutions of less than 150 , either free standing or in collaboration with others , have offered and will continue to offer a range of courses well matched to the needs of the student population as they are at the present time . |
| 16 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 17 | The new frozen foods factory ( 5 ) is near the present city outskirts . |
| 18 | And that 's not from a Conservative , that 's from the present Chairman of C N D , and was n't a spectacle that was last week . |
| 19 | In the second the end user develops an idea for a new product that is beyond the present vision of the industry and brings it to the attention of a manufacturer or industry . |
| 20 | " that from the style of the building ( which although ancient in its design , is at the present day unique and novel ) it is almost impossible to calculate to any thing near the real cost , where the greatest part of the expense is incurred by the labour in working the , stone in the various forms on antique architecture . |
| 21 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 22 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 23 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 24 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 25 | L some of that land is at the present time is used for the golf course , there was an impact of all those routes on on the golf course . |
| 26 | It is , it is , yes , is it , it is at the present time , but it is it is growing . |
| 27 | Our budget er is at the present time overspent er something of the order of £70,000 , and we 're required by the Health Authority and by government , er to manage within our existing cash limited budget . |
| 28 | Of course , that was before the present government . |
| 29 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |
| 30 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |