Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this be the right view of Dixon J. 's judgment [ at pp. 683–685 ] , then it is clear that it does not help Mrs. Perry in the present case . |
| 2 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
| 3 | There is no longer a designated area called South Vietnam in the present Socialist Republic of Vietnam . |
| 4 | As the Chancellor 's friends should know , the Government have been warned every year — from the days of Mr. Vredeling until the present time — that additionality is essential , and that this country is breaking the rules . |
| 5 | But these abuses and reforms have nothing to do with the order made by Buckley J. in the present proceedings . |
| 6 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 7 | Such regional devolution is well known and topical in the United Kingdom at the present day . |
| 8 | From the time of the resurrection of handmade table ware in the United Kingdom to the present day , the booms in sales of craft ware follows closely the introductions of major technological changes and their ever increasingly felt effect on all aspects of life . |
| 9 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |
| 10 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 11 | The office has no grassroots support — indeed few women know of its existence , The project merely highlights the vacuous nature of women 's development programmes as conceived in El Salvador at the present time . |
| 12 | The term epeirogeny was in fact first coined by G. K. Gilbert in 1890 to describe the isostatic uplift which occurred as a result of the evaporation of Lake Bonneville in Utah in the western U S A ( leaving the much smaller Great Salt Lake of the present day ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |
| 14 | If that is , as I believe it to be , the correct approach , then it does not appear to have been adopted by Thorpe J. in the present case . |