Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 2 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 3 | In 1551 , Bishop Scory leased the Manor and its lands to Robert Deane , for 99 years when they passed at his death to his daughter Sylvestre , then ultimately to the family of Dalison , who who maintained their interest in them until the present century , or at least certain land . |
| 4 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 5 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 6 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 7 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 8 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 9 | There was nothing of interest to her in the present conversation except as a means of promoting their intimacy and retaining his arm around her waist . |
| 10 | The opening door recalled him to the present situation . |
| 11 | I reject the hon. Gentleman 's criticism , and I can reassure him on the present position . |
| 12 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 13 | We looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 14 | In a letter to Gilbert dated 16 November , 1840 he wrote : ‘ As I find the fauna of New Holland quite distinct and that of New Zealand to belong to an entirely different group of Islands I have determined not to include it in the present work ; you will therefore not go there … ’ |
| 15 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 16 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 17 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |
| 18 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 19 | And we were absolutely amazed when , in going round the ocean floors , we found that indeed these molecules in the sediments showed a , a relationship to the surface temperatures above them at the present day . |
| 20 | It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so . |
| 21 | ‘ It is the only thing that will defend us in the present crisis , ’ says Reddy . |
| 22 | He will be missed although the contribution he has made will remain with us in the present form of N C V O , to which he very greatly contributed . |
| 23 | Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised . |
| 24 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 25 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 26 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 27 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |