Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , there are some aspects to the present acid house craze which distinguish it from its predecessors and which need attention . |
| 2 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 3 | For all its dangers , there are three features of the present libel law which protect careless or incompetent journalists . |
| 4 | Those of us involved in CNAA validation procedures would acknowledge that there are considerable advantages in the present system . |
| 5 | If the structure of excise duties maintained revenue without unduly distorting consumer choice , there might be some justification for the present system . |
| 6 | This may not just be a change in location and hence in pattern , since there may be contemporary settlements beneath the present villages , an aspect Bob Smith is examining in the Wiltshire valleys . |
| 7 | There should be enough resources within the present squad . ’ |
| 8 | There is evidence at many points around the continent that more rock is exposed today than in the immediately recent past , and that there were several retreats during the present interglacial ( Péwé , 1960 ) , though not on the scale of the northern retreat . |
| 9 | In older age ( 60–75 or more ) there is reasonable concordance between the present study and those of Thomas et al and McGrother et al , but differences with others are considerable . |
| 10 | That 's general policy at the present time it 's a fairly woolly objective that we did n't try at the review , but the traffic management facilities and provisions are observed |
| 11 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 12 | Global sea level was 120 metres below the present level during the Ice Age . |