Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton was advised that this ‘ will be a means to make most of the Trades fly against the present sett . |
| 2 | Books written in the present day by historians are undoubtedly secondary sources , each representing one person 's view of what happened in the past . |
| 3 | A proposal by producer countries to finance the plan , based on equal contributions from both sides via a levy system , was also rejected by the EC , which demanded that funds be drawn from existing assets — i.e. , in practice , from arrears owed to the present agreement by the two biggest producers , Côte d'Ivoire and Brazil . |
| 4 | We will ease the transition from the present wasteful and inefficient price support mechanism to market prices and direct support for farmers ' incomes to achieve environmental and social goals , to be funded by savings made from the present intervention payment system . |
| 5 | Fluka Chemicals Ltd , based at Glossop in Derbyshire , is the British subsidiary of Fluka Chemie AG , Switzerland , and is part of a world-wide network of subsidiary and distribution companies , providing a high speed , high quality sales , distribution and technical back up service for the full range of over 14,000 chemicals and bio-chemicals offered in the present Fluka Catalogue . |
| 6 | Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal . |
| 7 | Are not the truly appalling unemployment figures announced today — an increase of more than 53,000 , taking the unemployment total to more than 2,600,000 , even leaving out the thousands of job losses announced during the present month — ample proof that the Government 's incompetent economic policies are certainly not working , but are causing severe hurt ? |
| 8 | Most of its historical anomalies survive in the present offence . |
| 9 | Kelsall argued for the fundamental reform , academically and architecturally , of Oxford and Cambridge , urging them to ‘ Take at last measures to keep peace with the improvements made in the present age , in all the departments of science and art . ’ |
| 10 | The Court of Criminal Appeal , in which Lord Goddard C.J. presided , considered the direction to be perfectly satisfactory and the judgment referred specifically to the phrase emphasised above , which had no echo in the directions given in the present case . |
| 11 | With almost all posts going to the present Shadows , interest centres on the choice of Lord Chancellor . |
| 12 | In this connection , and considering the high frequency of anti-lactoferrin antibodies found in the present study , it is interesting to hote that lactogerrin has been reported to lind to intestinal brush border via a specific receptor . |
| 13 | The enlarged board of merged group will include several new directors taken from the present board of Tyne Tees . |
| 14 | What hidden tensions lurk beneath the present surface ? |
| 15 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 16 | The paracelsian mercurials represented one of the small handful of important therapeutic advances made before the present century . |
| 17 | Extracts from these figures are listed as Table 1 , which records expenditure on libraries and computing for the universities involved in the present study , and Table 2 , which ranks these universities in terms of the proportions of post-graduate research carried out in these institutions . |
| 18 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 19 | The rule about the incorporation of customs and usages continues to the present day , as an examination of any textbook on contract law will show . |
| 20 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 21 | The consultation document contained no firm proposals on the franchising system although , given that 137 out of 167 pages referred to the present BR profit centres , it is reasonable to infer that the Government 's preferred set up would be based on profit centre related franchises . |
| 22 | Martin Sauer records that when he visited the region in 1790 the Eskimos congregated in the present locality of Nome hoping to obtain supplies of precisely these commodities . |
| 23 | Under Article 6 a State which ‘ persistently violate(s) the Principles contained in the present Charter ’ can be expelled from the Organisation by the General Assembly acting upon the recommendation of the Security Council . |
| 24 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 25 | Delay figures extracted from the present databases showed that in 82 cases , ( 25% ) , related papers were published before the date of completion of the thesis . |
| 26 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 27 | None of these other statutory provisions applies to the present case . |
| 28 | David Blunkett , replying for the national executive , persuaded delegates from Kingston-upon-Thames not to press the motion calling for a commitment to sack all the health authority chairmen and senior managers appointed by the present administration . |
| 29 | Eric Schumacher , newly appointed as TRANSAID director , has visited Lesotho and Mozambique and thence to South Africa to meet representatives of the Road Transport Federation , with whom S.C.F. are now dealing to locate possible resources to assist in the present emergency . |
| 30 | Changes suggested by the Present study |