Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 2 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 3 | ( The original crypt , one of the most ancient surviving Christian structures , lies beneath the present church and is open to visitors . ) |
| 4 | On Bosnia-Hercegovina they declared that " the primary responsibility for the conflict , and its brutality , lies with the present leadership of Serbia and of the Bosnian Serbs " ; in particular they were " appalled by the systematic detention and rape of Moslem women " [ see also p. 39240 ] . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Met 's problem lies in the present state of museum affairs , where the ideal curator combines impeccable scholarship and connoisseurship with a golden ability to raise acquisition funds and attract and nurture prospective donors . |
| 6 | A final problem lies in the present perception of the going concern qualification 's role and in the nature of the auditors ' relationship with their client company 's management . |
| 7 | Newstead , known to the Romans as Trimontium , has in the present century yielded up wonderful finds including shoes , sandals , jewellery and the iron helmet of a cavalryman . |
| 8 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 9 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 10 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 11 | Much of this rankles with the present Conservative UK government and the Prime Minister openly criticises the ‘ nightmare ’ of a socialist European superstate run from Brussels . |
| 12 | The fee you pay also depends on the present condition of your teeth . |
| 13 | Thus in He can sing the incidence of " sing " to " he " exists as a potential in the present : the person referred to possesses at the present moment the capacity of realizing this action . |
| 14 | This would be asking rather more of the social security system than exists under the present arrangements , for this payment would be made , not on the grounds of ‘ need ’ as with existing Supplementary Benefits ( SB ) , nor on grounds of compensation , as with ICA , nor on the grounds of purchased ‘ rights ’ as in the case of insurance benefits , but on grounds of work carried out . |
| 15 | Finally , ‘ dedicated ’ asset specificity refers to resources which , in principle , are usable elsewhere but for which no effective demand exists outside the present transaction ; their installation was conditional on continuing demand from a particular buyer ( see Williamson , 1983 : 526 ) . |
| 16 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 17 | There are hints , there are passages here and there where she goes into the present tense . |
| 18 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 19 | Should it be so decided , the first thing under review will be the road system which just about copes with the present traffic . |
| 20 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 21 | Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day . |
| 22 | On the other hand there are , in some people 's opinions , sinister overtones of being able to keep tabs on a person 's movements , though how that differs from the present system I am not quite sure . |
| 23 | Lord Atkinson in the House of Lords , at p. 235 , also discusses Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 , but not in a way which assists in the present case . |
| 24 | Mr. Beazley suggested that to do this would be adopting an isolationist attitude , but I am unable to accept this submission , particularly since Schedule 4 itself is a modified version of its counterpart in the Brussels Convention , which has been adapted in substantive respects to fit United Kingdom requirements , e.g. , by the addition of the last 12 words to article 5(3) , and by the insertion of the entirely new article 5(8) on which Mr. Beazley relies in the present case . |
| 25 | But that 's my opinion and in no way … no way reflects on the present gathering . ’ |
| 26 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 27 | None of these other statutory provisions applies to the present case . |
| 28 | Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal . |
| 29 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 30 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |