Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And he urged a new emphasis on the victims , saying they were badly treated under the present system .
2 The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community .
3 However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents .
4 Such sources are valuable for the wide-ranging data they provide and , particularly , for the historical dimension they add to primary data that is necessarily bound to the present day .
5 A moment later , I spotted the young Mr Cardinal not far away , still standing on his own , and it struck me the young gentleman might be feeling somewhat overawed in the present company .
6 He was one of those people who only care about the present moment . ’
7 If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below .
8 This issue does not arise in the present case .
9 Some of these plate boundary configurations and stages of development are largely conjectural since clear examples do not exist at the present day .
10 Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time .
11 In the present study , the noun-noun combination does not produce any more reliable plural continuations than does the name-name combination , so such a contrast mechanism is not operating in the present study .
12 Belle and I floored another hen betwixt the pair of us , and I shall be no sooner done with the present writing racket than I shall put myself outside a pint of Guinness .
13 Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget .
14 They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College .
15 In eight patients , there were other benign tumours within the resection specimen — that is , tubular adenomas or tubulovillous adenomas ; these tumours were not sampled during the present study , while one patient had two separate , synchronous primary tumours ( in the left colon and transverse colon ) .
16 Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session .
17 But any apparent acceptance of the interim government by the United Nations and other international organisations and states does not suffice in the present case to demonstrate that the interim government is the Government of the Republic of Somalia .
18 By the end of this stage , social productivity and economic efficiency would have increased at least two-fold compared to the present day .
19 Political marketing is no longer suited to the present situation . ’
20 This reasoning can not apply to the present case .
21 This reasoning also does not apply to the present case .
22 Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " .
23 In those circumstances , the judge held that the provisions in the legislation of 1985 did not apply in the present case which continued to be governed by the Act of 1957 .
24 The Act of 1976 does not apply in the present case as Tina Burton was born disabled on 26 April 1967 and Christopher De Martell was born disabled on 5 February 1967 .
25 Agree that charges for the Remuneration Certificate service be not introduced at the present time .
26 But the ordinary and correct course was not followed in the present case , with the unfortunate results that the case itself demonstrates .
27 The precise mechanism of enalapril 's antialbuminuric effects is not elucidated by the present study .
28 The early impression that the virus was of prime aetiological significance in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis is not supported by the present prevalence ; the absence of a better outlook in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( with cytomegalovirus ) treated with foscarnet compared with untreated patients in consistent with the conclusion that it is unlikely to be important .
29 ‘ As Londoners , desperately worried about the present route of the Channel tunnel , what do we say to those who think the Talis alternative is beneficial ? ’ — Chris Fraser , Peckham ‘ Out of the huge crowd of demonstrators , a woman ran out and thrust a baby in my arms — then she vanished ’ — Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health ‘ Polluted rivers , filthy streets , bodies bedded-down in doorways are no advertisement for a prosperous or caring society ’ - Michael Heseltine ‘ We know that God has endowed her with that great quality of not fidgeting when it is necessary to come to grips with prickly nettles …
30 It 's not united at the present day , there are far too many lefts and rights and centres .
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