Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
2 | This constant cycle of warfare , involving fleets as mighty as the Spanish Armada , had kept Bouton in isolation up to the present day . |
3 | Hale 's choice to retain the medieval approach to consent in the case of married women only was to shape the course of the law up to the present day . |
4 | Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day . |
5 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |
6 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
7 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
8 | Fred Archer , Jem Mason , Steve Donoghue , Gordon Richards , John Francome and Lester Piggott up to the present day . |
9 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
10 | The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich presents a survey of maritime history from the Tudor period up to the present day . |
11 | Honour and Arms by J.F. Huxford ( London 1984 ) is a quite sumptuous book covering augmentations from early , legendary , varieties up to the present century . |
12 | This was followed by Mr Gissing on ‘ Railways in the Rugby Area ’ , illustrated with photographs taken in the early post-war era up to the present day . |
13 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
14 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
15 | The Museum of Leathercraft in Bridge Street houses a nationally important collection of leathergoods dating from Egyptian times up to the present day . |
16 | With additional purchases the museum will be one of the most important for concrete art in Germany , showing works by Marcello Morandini , Leon Polks Smith , Josef Albers , Verena Loewensberg , and Peter Vogels bringing the story of concrete art up to the present day . |
17 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
18 | It subsequently evolved into a lower-case ‘ Roman ’ face , and with the capital lettering mentioned in the preceding paragraph is still employed by printers down to the present day . |
19 | From about 1850 , it begins to decline at an increasing rate up to the present day ( figure 2.5 ) . |
20 | Anthropologists have continued to employ participant observation as their major method of data collection up to the present day but , from about the 1930s onwards , sociology and anthropology grew further and further apart . |
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 | For example with r = 1.5 , n = 0.5 ( with a generation of 30 years ) , this means that ( or a saving rate out of the present value of income of 36 per cent ) . |
23 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
24 | In some cases , the collapse of Roman technology , and the economic structure which supported it , marks a clear break between what went before and the developments through to the present day . |
25 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
26 | Several varieties of chalcedony , a silica in crystalline form , translucent and sometimes transparent , waxy to the touch , hard and extremely enduring , were treasured for jewellery , amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time . |
27 | It could be anyone from the beginning of the world up to the present day . |
28 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
29 | Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) . |
30 | A number of sub-committees were set up to put into effect the directions of the Poor Law Commissioner and at a meeting on 23rd September l835 , it was found administratively convenient to group the parishes into Northern and Southern districts , an arrangement which has persisted in the health service in Bedfordshire in various forms for the same reason up to the present day . |