Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds ( 1984 ) , for example , argues that whereas all nucleated settlements ( or places in the present context ) have the same functions — ‘ facilitation of all forms of exchange , transfer , and communications while linking the nucleation or locality both with other localities and with society at large ( p. 295 ) — there is also a threefold specialization between places . |
| 2 | Lord McGregor of Durris told journalists and editors at the annual What the Papers Say Awards lunch yesterday that critics of the present commission had not grasped that in some situations the law was powerless to regulate people 's behaviour . |
| 3 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 4 | Both critics and defenders of the present regime describe it as a system of self-regulation . |
| 5 | Illness , displacement by a younger brother or sister , or the divorce of parents are experiences from the past which can be interwoven with a current separation , overdetermining the strength of feelings and reactions in the present day . |
| 6 | For example , notice occurrences and functions of the present tense ; of the progressive aspect ( eg was lying ) ; of the perfective aspect ( eg has/had appeared ) ; of modal auxiliaries ( eg can , must , would , etc ) . |
| 7 | It is this School which has continued to influence , both directly and indirectly , the best dressage riders and instructors of the present time . |
| 8 | Adopting that approach to the facts and circumstances of the present application I am satisfied that it raises a question deserving a fuller investigation , and , if that investigation were to favour [ the foster mother ] , that it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the children ( or one or more of them ) for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 9 | However , one benefit for DHAs and GPs of the present system is that difficult rationing decisions are taken by hospital physicians and are seldom made explicit . |
| 10 | There is little understanding of the tasks and challenges of the present day . |
| 11 | Some of the women with a high specification of standards and routines in the present sample did , indeed , demonstrate a strong emotional involvement in housework and their ‘ guilt ’ , ‘ worry ’ or ‘ anxiety ’ about failures to meet housework standards does suggest some of the obsessional symptoms manifested by the patients in Cooper 's survey . |
| 12 | Can they , however , satisfactorily incorporate the changes in societies which now determine the existence and practices of the present media ? |