Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government . |
| 5 | While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This practice has continued to the present day and over the years many of the field geologists became recognised petrographers . |
| 12 | Significant vertical uplift probably began in the Oligocene about 35 Ma ago and has continued to the present time , but at varying rates . |
| 13 | Over most of the Zechstein basin , burial has continued until the present day but at some localities the carbonates have been uplifted , exposed and even eroded . |
| 14 | Power has alternated in the present century between civilian , military and coalition civilian-military governments , mostly involving the Liberal Party of Honduras ( Partido Liberal de Honduras — PLH ) or the conservative National Party ( Partido Nacional — PN ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The western hamlet has survived with the present parish church of St Nicholas . |
| 19 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |