Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] present [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On occasion we were able to produce small fragments of intact retina that were suitable for microspectrophotometry and yet were extensive enough to answer the present question .
2 Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches .
3 It is clear , however , that any further delay in finding a way to address the problem will only encourage the present trend to increase — leading to even more deaths and disease each year .
4 These new works are without exception undistinguished — neither major nor , in most cases , characteristic — and one only wishes the present Court was more robustly advised in such matters .
5 The dominant undertaking will be able to give binding directions to the public company in the light of the group 's overall interest rather than that of the public company alone ( so over-riding the present UK approach of treating companies as separate entities even if they are in a group ) .
6 ‘ Not only does the present law put all the blame on an unfortunate woman , it is used to punish her for her misfortune .
7 Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies .
8 But there are several others , fast-moving , market-responsive operations which could soon make the present notion of the UK publishers ' market share look a little dated .
9 Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands .
10 With advances in electronic control and programming , and also possibly in operator programming skill , it is likely that in future it will be feasible for many operators to program the next job on the machine while it is still cutting the present piece .
11 Mary Kelly has long contested , with cerebral acerbity , current tropes of femininity , from handbags to nappies ; she too , has deeply influenced the present generation of women artists .
12 India 's desire to open up to foreign investment evident in the relaxation on rules restricting foreign advertising , for example have further encouraged the present move .
13 We still regard the present form of the policy and the explanatory wording as being rather too restrictive .
14 One should also explore the present capacities of the client against the background of the life experience which shaped him/her .
15 It was Moore 's son , also William , who probably built the present house , to match his desired image of the new country squire that he was .
16 Somewhat later came the present owner , John Matta , who now takes great pleasure in greeting Citalia guests and welcomes them on arrival with a gift of the wonderful Chianti Classico from his excellent cellars and offers them a typical Tuscan dinner at a reasonable price , which is taken most weeks in the castle 's impressive banqueting hall .
17 The definition also removes the present reference to expectation and with it the possible argument that goods which are generally of low quality generate low expectations .
18 He also warned the present pay structure was failing to provide the correct size and quality of workforce .
19 They would both maintain the present cycle of welfare dependency in education , whereby parents are unable to exercise their proper responsibility , as a result of which the spirit of freedom atrophies and schools run down .
20 Indeed , this may grossly under-represent the present situation : the rapid spread of UNIX-based systems seems to facilitate competition and , at the time of writing , performance of workstations per unit cost seems to be increasing at about 50 per cent per annum .
21 At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law .
22 The British government agreed to that and it 's that matter that now causes the present difficulties and uncertainties .
23 Referring to the recent bomb blasts in Belfast , Portadown and Magherafelt , Sir Patrick told reporters that he believed the IRA had stepped up its campaign of destruction because it would never win by the ballot-box and he revealed that he would be talking to senior RUC officers later today to discuss the present security situation .
24 There is an obvious danger that such a body might well adopt an excessively narrow focus by concentrating on such issues as effectiveness and consistency in sentencing , in which case it would simply perpetuate the present disjuncture between sentencing and penal policy .
25 The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace 's dream of a theory of science , a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic : one certainly can not predict future events exactly if one can not even measure the present state of the universe precisely !
26 Here the resulting effect is to emphatically assert a present state .
27 Some 1800 million years ago atmospheric oxygen was fast approaching the present level of about 21 per cent of the total .
28 But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office .
29 Okay so if we just summoned this area right , that area there represents the present value of the discounted stream of income .
30 But if they have produced nothing by then to diminish the present perception of the fudgeability of accounts , they are hardly likely to survive that long .
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