Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been hit by the present Government , under whom the tax burden has increased . |
| 2 | When you look at that mausoleum , with its granite monsters biting into the construction , then you feel you have been transported into the present day situation . |
| 3 | The lower three levels ( lexical analysis , morphological processing and syntactic analysis ) have been investigated during the present project , and are described in detail elsewhere , e.g. Wells [ 1992 ] and Keenan [ 1992 ] . |
| 4 | Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what percentage of collieries have been closed under the present Government , and what percentage were closed under the last Labour Government ? |
| 5 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |