Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 2 | We 're nowhere near young enough for the present war , but when the world war comes — we 'll be just right to fight it . |
| 3 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 4 | Strangely we find that its diamond shape was less like the present day Delta with its rigid leading edge spars than the design by George D. Wanner of Dayton as filed 11 months prior in January 1948 , as against November 1948 for Rogallo . |
| 5 | Only under the present ruler Sultan Qaboos , aided by modern communications and social development , has the country become united under one leader . |
| 6 | Our relationship with India , especially with the present Government of India , is such that we can talk about what is on our minds , and on the minds of many of our constituents , without causing offence . |
| 7 | Most experts do not believe that the USSR can increase oil production much above the present level due to cumbersome bureaucracy , failure to find new reserves and shortage of sophisticated drilling equipment . |
| 8 | Eight years on the problems have not decreased but they have increased er , even more so with the present problem of employers who tend to ignore health and safety using fear of unemployment to stop complaints . |
| 9 | Taken together with the present results , platelet activating factor is likely to modulate regional fibrinolytic activity during gastric mucosal injury induced by endothelin-1 . |
| 10 | As someone who , long before the present crisis , was once a militant communist , what is your reaction to these utopias and to the general confusion ? |
| 11 | However , while for many philosophers , especially in the present century , these are two different sorts of question , for Kant they are essentially one . |
| 12 | This phrase has been described as confusing and was so in the present case by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 13 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 14 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 15 | Tradition does n't seem to mean much to the present Government . |
| 16 | What is more , it is close enough to the present day to be regarded as an illustration of the present-day processes by means of which we interpret the past . |
| 17 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 18 | The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it . |
| 19 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 20 | It is a tiny building , only 38 by 25 feet , and now stands a little below the present pavement level . |
| 21 | What could be far more critical is the devastating effect of another major reorganisation within the NHS so soon after the present Government 's introduction of the more business-like internal market . |
| 22 | The first trap is a sentimental romanticism that turns our attention away from the present battle and leaves us wallowing in nostalgia for the past . |
| 23 | These portions of the mantle may now be melted preferentially in relatively undiluted form , away from the present ridge , by rising plumes or hot zones because they are enriched in low-temperature melting fractions incorporated at the time of U/Pb fractionation , and because of a lower geothermal gradient in areas of old thick lithosphere where the peridotite solidus is at greater depth . |
| 24 | God was there and there seemed no need to pray or sing hymns either to transport me away from the present reality or to ward off danger by attracting God 's attention . |
| 25 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 26 | All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum . |
| 27 | ‘ Thus in the present case what I am concerned to ascertain is whether … |
| 28 | He lived in Catte Street , approximately on the present site of All Souls College chapel , within the area around St Mary 's church where the Oxford book trade was concentrated . |
| 29 | Just at the present time everything looks so fresh . |
| 30 | According to Hesiod the age of idle luxury was followed successively by an age of heroes , a silver age , an age of bronze , and finally by the present iron age . |