Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | They propose an improved procedure for the handling of bills ; making legislation easier to follow ; and , of course , the cry for improvements in the present Select Committee system . |
| 2 | These three questions were used in an adapted form for housewives in the present sample . |
| 3 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 4 | All humans may well have a place on the genealogy which begins with Adam ; but the point where , say , the French line diverges from the Libyan line is likely to some hundreds of generations above the present adult men of Libya and France . |
| 5 | Incontinence was seen as a moderate or severe social handicap by 37% of subjects in the present sample ( the same as found by Wyman et al ) . |
| 6 | Now that 's no way no way to run the railway I was gon na say but that 's probably probably not the best choice of words in the present circumstances . |
| 7 | Dr Meldrum pointed out that there were a number of anomalies in the present system . |
| 8 | It 's the only , and it 's only because , and this is , I mean , having to understand why Government , surely the majority of supporters of the present Government would n't approve of this . |
| 9 | In this , said A. Hanoverian in A Letter to the House of Peers on the Present Bill depending in Parliament relative to the Prince of Wales 's Debts ( 1795 ) , they were mistaken . |
| 10 | The Labour Party , which supports the idea of parent governors , has identified a number of shortcomings in the present arrangements . |
| 11 | The motion states : ‘ To recruit almost exclusively from the narrow minority group of Guardian readers whose views are predominantly leftwing is contrary to the spirit of the obligations of political balance in broadcasting and is an explanation of the self-righteous and unctuous hostility of broadcasters towards the present Government . ’ |
| 12 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
| 13 | The two existing verandahs were to be used for patient accommodation ‘ for which they were intended ’ and the number of patients in the present wards should be reduced by 17 ‘ to conform to standards of spacing ’ . |
| 14 | During this period there was a greater proportion of heavy smokers in the capital area , which is in agreement with the observed geographical distribution of patients in the present study . |
| 15 | The percentages of children in the present study who had detectable neutralising antibody against poliovirus types 1 , 2 , and 3 after three doses of OPV are similar to percentages reported from other developing countries , and contribute to the increasing evidence that routine vaccination with OPV at 6 , 10 , and 14 weeks of age might leave many children susceptible to infection . |
| 16 | Some ten per cent of theses in the present study are regarded as unproductive in that their authors failed to publish related papers ; the original theses were never consulted , and the theses have never been cited . |
| 17 | That said , the prevalence of NSAID intake was not significantly lower than that reported in an Australian community prevalence study after correction for a lower proportion of women in the present study . |
| 18 | At Leeds , for example , the grid of streets between the present railway station and the significantly named The Headrow , though now much mutilated by modern development , is still that laid out by Maurice de Paynel in the early thirteenth century . |
| 19 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |
| 20 | Inevitably , political differences in priorities and analyses exist , some women emphasis-ing the need to work for changes within the present housing system , while the priority of others is to construct alternative housing situations for women . |
| 21 | I will re-present Eikmeyer 's model here , with adaptations for the present purpose . |
| 22 | They aim to establish a working system that can cope with arrivals on the present scale . |
| 23 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 24 | The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor . |
| 25 | Fiscal reformers — including members of the present government — have argued for years that it should be . |
| 26 | Figure 2 shows a compilation of age determinations indicating times of high lake levels for the Kenya rift valley in comparison with results from the present study . |
| 27 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 28 | These floods probably constitute the main agent of erosion in deserts at the present time . |
| 29 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
| 30 | In terms of the present debate between capitalism and socialism , they are fundamentally different from the prescriptions of both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman . |