Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one daughter , married to a well-known Politician — Vivian Carolan , who is Minister of Fine Arts in the present government . |
| 2 | I know of only one serious reason for suspecting interpolations in the present text of II Maccabees . |
| 3 | In the present case , when this was attempted using the figures for total publications by thesis authors in the present study , Figure 12 was obtained . |
| 4 | In the present case , when this was attempted using the figures for total publications by thesis authors in the present study , Figure 12 was obtained . |
| 5 | ‘ I never played alongside the new , younger lads in the present team . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Normal levels of 24 hour intragastric acidity have been observed in asymptomatic , presumably chronically infected , subjects , and acid secretion was not raised in H pylori positive subjects in the present study . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dr Meldrum pointed out that there were a number of anomalies in the present system . |
| 10 | Having just received our annual pay rise , it brought to our attention yet again the anomalies in the present pay structure . |
| 11 | There is a danger of falling into both these traps in the present spate of Christian enthusiasm for the Spirit . |
| 12 | Therefore , the gastrin concentrations in the present study are probably measured at the lowest level . |
| 13 | ’ Nor did Vinelott J. think that a taxation on the indemnity basis under Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) would do justice to the contractual right of the defendants in the present case . |
| 14 | The first of them is an appeal by the first defendants in the present action ( ‘ the appellants ’ ) against an order made by Judge Stockdale , sitting at the Watford County Court on 2 August 1991 , committing each appellant to prison for a term of four months by reason of their contempt . |
| 15 | Because of its convenience the horizontal view ( 90° view angle ) has been used in all serious trials in the present project . |
| 16 | How much more is the lack of symmetry between men and women apparent when one considers the fact that a congregation of nuns must invite an outsider , an outsider who , in many countries in the present Anglican and in the Roman Catholic context , has to be a man , to celebrate for them . |
| 17 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 18 | The Labour Party , which supports the idea of parent governors , has identified a number of shortcomings in the present arrangements . |
| 19 | Those of us involved in CNAA validation procedures would acknowledge that there are considerable advantages in the present system . |
| 20 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 21 | personal characteristics are laughed at , family likenesses in the present generations are pointed out , even among the pigs and dogs which still wander around the village . |
| 22 | Given the present economic constraints on the NHS it is inevitable that there will be reductions in the present level of resources tied up in these two hospitals . |
| 23 | Thanks to the generosity of the Order the centre is ready to meet those needs in the present day and age . |
| 24 | Writing in 1966 , Edward Boyle felt it necessary to defend the House of Commons — and Crosland in particular — from the accusation of being hostile to the universities : ‘ there is little envious ill-will towards the universities in the present House of Commons ’ . |
| 25 | Leeds ( 1984 ) , for example , argues that whereas all nucleated settlements ( or places in the present context ) have the same functions — ‘ facilitation of all forms of exchange , transfer , and communications while linking the nucleation or locality both with other localities and with society at large ( p. 295 ) — there is also a threefold specialization between places . |
| 26 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 27 | The Law Commission , in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recognised many of the weaknesses in the present law on merchantable quality ( paras 3.4 – 6 ) and recommended a new definition to be adopted in all contracts involving supply of goods . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The mean age difference between old and young subjects in this study , however , was 24 years compared with 50 years in the present study . |
| 30 | Care needs to be taken in assessing most of these figures in the present situation as there are two important recent changes . |