Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the present day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bell , therefore , not only saved the deaf class in the school from closure , but also introduced the oral method of teaching and laid the foundations for the present day Garvel Centre for the Deaf ( as the unit is called ) . |
| 2 | He charted the progress of time-resolved photochemical methods , from the millisecond flash-photolysis experiments of the 1950s , which he helped pioneer , to the femtosecond pulses of the present day . |
| 3 | Mansfield 's attitude has echoed down through the centuries to the present day . |
| 4 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 5 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 6 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 7 | Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is to the decoration of the railroad station . |
| 8 | It is also possible to get data for past populations of countries , and to make alternative projections towards the present day , thus comparing what did happen with what might have happened . |
| 9 | It is remarkable that mental qualities that were selected for these purposes should have stood us in such good stead in the very different circumstances of the present day . |
| 10 | This exciting new play traces the history of the Dock Ward area of Belfast , from its origins to the present day , in an evening of song , dance , music and drama . |
| 11 | But in the West what really characterises the mid-1950s to the present day , and marks off the contemporary world from the earlier stages of modernity , is the bewildering speed with which the social , technological and ideological changes have taken place . |
| 12 | This was discussed at the beginning of the previous chapter , but it needs to be stated again that there seem to be comparatively few and small areas on the shelves at the present day where sediment is actively accumulating . |
| 13 | There are about 20 intra-oceanic island arcs located along subduction zones at the present day , the great majority being found in the western Pacific Ocean ( Fig. 3.6 ) . |
| 14 | This , of course , is an issue very much apparent in the fortunes of local railway lines at the present day . |
| 15 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 16 | The rich sonority of the lower register , in particular , has been exploited to both sinister and tranquil effect from Mahler , Stravinsky , and Prokofiev , to composers of the present day . |
| 17 | Thanks to the generosity of the Order the centre is ready to meet those needs in the present day and age . |
| 18 | These questions are all the more important in that the picture it paints of the real meaning of the New Testament , of Jesus ' message , and of the essential nature of Christianity , accurately reflects an understanding of the matter which is still very widespread among Christians in the present day , though usually in less sophisticated form . |
| 19 | About forty years before the present day , Belegar attempted to break the deadlock with aid from the north . |
| 20 | But the Princeton theology has also had a much wider influence among more conservative Christians to the present day . |
| 21 | The onset of gas generation from Westphalian A and B Strata occurred from late Jurassic to early Cretaceous times with the present day gas generation threshold computed to be at + 10000 ft ( 3000 m ) . |
| 22 | The parallels drawn in the services between the sufferings of our Divine Redeemer and those of the ‘ Royal Martyr ’ , he added , were utterly repugnant to feelings of the present day , and the affirmation that King Charles was among ‘ the greatest of Kings and best of men ’ was now quite unacceptable to many excellent members of the Church . |
| 23 | That is that , for most of its long history , from the classical Greeks to the present day , democracy was seen by the enlightened and educated as one of the worst types of government and society imaginable . |
| 24 | Illness , displacement by a younger brother or sister , or the divorce of parents are experiences from the past which can be interwoven with a current separation , overdetermining the strength of feelings and reactions in the present day . |
| 25 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 26 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 27 | It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine . |
| 28 | Tradition and dissent , from Saxon times to the present day . |
| 29 | Northampton 's architectural heritage — Medieval times to the present day . |
| 30 | This museum 's displays illustrate the history of leather use from earliest times to the present day . |