Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 2 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 3 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 4 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 5 | Lord Atkinson in the House of Lords , at p. 235 , also discusses Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 , but not in a way which assists in the present case . |
| 6 | The complex arguments which lay behind the present situation — and the possible solutions — are , however , beyond the scope of this chapter . |
| 7 | In this sense the picture of the housewife which emerges in the present study not only bears on an understanding of the situation of women in society today ; it also illuminates one face of urban family life . |
| 8 | The above list is by no means exhaustive , but it covers most of the matrix types which arise in the present text . |
| 9 | The ‘ new ’ building was erected in 1229 to replace the Broletto Vecchio , the old Broletto , which stood near the present Piazzetta Reale . |
| 10 | [ 1991 ] Ch. 1 Mr. Andrew Park Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge in the Chancery Division , was dealing with an execution difficulty rather different from that which arises in the present case . |
| 11 | It will be readily apparent that the section is silent on the question which arises in the present case , namely whether a minor who has attained the age of 16 years has an absolute right to refuse medical treatment . |
| 12 | There are hints , there are passages here and there where she goes into the present tense . |
| 13 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 14 | Michael , you have done a lot of work both with and for Equity , what do you feel about the present day students ' dilemma ? |
| 15 | The Labour and Conservative Parties who benefit from the present system have set their teeth against a change which would undermine their prospect of regularly forming a government on their own . |
| 16 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 17 | Women have long been politically active ; it is not something confined to the present wave of feminism . |
| 18 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 19 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 20 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 21 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |
| 22 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 23 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 24 | Certainly nothing that we decide in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process . |
| 25 | By contrast , if one seeks in the present continuum for ‘ that which attends ’ , nothing is to be found . |
| 26 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 27 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 28 | Erm power stations source of energy you see , one of the biggest sources of energy that we have at the present time next twenty years |
| 29 | Of course at the moment environmental health is very much an in subject , especially with the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 , and your profession has the marvellous opportunity of seeking to safeguard the environment and also the threats that we have at the present time which are upon the environment , from so many sources but , most of all particularly in the eastern counties , from the population explosion , which we here in South Cambridgeshire know quite a bit about . |
| 30 | What we need in the present case is further evidence to persuade us that the proposal to distinguish ordinary attributives as ( 37 ) ( a ) and postnominal attributives as ( 37 ) ( c ) goes beyond the mere possibility of correlating the two intensional patterns to the two different surface constructions . |