Example sentences of "[vb -s] to the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | None of these other statutory provisions applies to the present case . |
| 5 | Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | The term " is suffering " in this context refers to the present time . |
| 8 | Thus began , for developing man , the most important part of his existence in the universe , and this is the Third Period which started with the dawn of civilisation , and continues to the present day . |
| 9 | Other farms that were once situated in the centre of the village have been displaced by extensive house building which began in the early 1960s and continues to the present day . |
| 10 | This dream of decentralisation as a means to administrative efficiency continues to the present day , but it always wakes to the reality of Political control . |
| 11 | The rule about the incorporation of customs and usages continues to the present day , as an examination of any textbook on contract law will show . |
| 12 | The civil registration of all births , marriages and deaths in England and Wales began on 1 July 1837 and continues to the present day . |