Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Women have long been politically active ; it is not something confined to the present wave of feminism . |
2 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
3 | The material facts of that case , in so far as they relate to the present appeal , were that on the application of the Crown Prosecution Service , McCullough J. made a restraint order pursuant to section 77 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 in respect of the assets held by the applicants , a husband and wife . |
4 | I have nothing to add to the present state of knowledge on plans for Portland and I have no knowledge that the EH101 utility variant is to be used in the air-sea rescue role , at least in the predictable future . |
5 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
6 | Instead he kept to the present subject . |