Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | updating report , Chairman , I 've these past , the contract for the on-site services has now been let by , by the County Council 's private ent department , they 're actually going in the present time . |
| 2 | The unit of study is , in fact , unlikely to be a whole society since , as an anthropologist , Goody is fully aware that the ways in which a society represents its own past are always entangled in the present ideological and political concerns of particular groups and factions . |
| 3 | The famous mithraeum was not built from scratch but was adapted from a grotto/nymphaeum , the remains of which are still attached to the present structure to a height of twelve metres . |
| 4 | Both functions are well served in the present volume . |
| 5 | Only fifteen artists are actually included in the present volume , most of which is taken up by two sketchbooks by the eternally popular Maurice Prendergast , whose Paris sketchbook contains ninety pages of deftly-sketched scenes of bourgeois life , mainly park and street scenes with women and children . |
| 6 | It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration . |