Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to the present [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) .
2 Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time .
3 It has preserved to the present day its architectural setting and character , and its medieval town walls ( twelfth and fifteenth century ) are an exceptionally complete example of their period .
4 It is this ‘ reductionism ’ , this disavowal of complexity for the sake of pursuing moral certainties or political ideals , which has lead to the present crisis of antiracist education .
5 In stamping the image of the ‘ dark , satanic mills ’ on English consciousness , he articulated a deep-rooted aversion to industry that has persisted to the present day .
6 Thus in Europe , the mystical Kabbalism of Isaac Luria ( d. 1572 ) had a deep and enduring influence on the thought and spirituality of Jews which has persisted to the present day , even though it may seem far in spirit from the Talmud .
7 He has been one of the very few Serbs to have the courage to speak out against the kind of fanatical Serbian nationalism which has led to the present war .
8 This practice has continued to the present day and over the years many of the field geologists became recognised petrographers .
9 Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates .
10 Stewart is a traveller , one of the people of the road — among them , tinkers , pipers and folk-singers — in whom an oral culture has survived to the present day .
11 The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness .
12 The policy of keeping the membership subscriptions low has survived to the present time , despite the improvement in the economic circumstances of the deaf community as a whole .
13 Curiously , one pre eminent group of creatures that included not only the dinosaurs but birds and humans — a group that has lasted to the present day — was the bipedal or two-legged walking variety that had a group of sense organs at one end .
14 This belief has lasted to the present day ; and , in revenge , we should round up all the people who made these awful hippy records and make them read old Charlatans interviews until they beg for mercy and we hurl them into a well filled with angry weasels .
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