Example sentences of "[vb past] that [art] present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government also disclosed that the present method of assessing parental contributions according to parents ' residual income , after tax and mortgage payments , is to be retained for the time being . |
| 2 | That imaginary age , and not the robust world of the new novelists of the 1950s , was what Evelyn Waugh celebrated in the opening paragraph of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold ( 1957 ) when he predicted that the present age of English novelists would one day be ‘ valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century ‘ : a late-rococo world where Victorian exuberance had been replaced by ‘ elegance and variety of contrivance ’ . |
| 3 | This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations . |
| 4 | Addressing representatives from 212 member airlines at IATA 's annual meeting in Montreal , Eser warned that the present crisis , aggravated by a 4.4 per cent drop in passenger numbers on scheduled services , was likely to continue until at least 1994 . |
| 5 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 6 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 7 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 8 | The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised . |
| 9 | May I put to him the comments on BBC television this week of the commanding officer of bloody Sunday , Lieutenant Colonel Derek Wilford , who said that the present Government 's policies and those of their predecessors had failed completely ? |
| 10 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Julian Thompson , Chairman of Sotheby 's Far East operation , explained that the present scheme evolved from a successful charity sale held in Bombay in 1989 . |
| 11 | Your committee considered various sitings and concluded that the present position is most suitable for the 3 large 1100 litre bins which are eventually to replace the exiting heterogeneous collection . |
| 12 | In his review of man , vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers Douglas suggested that little account had previously been taken of human influence and his studies of rates of erosion in a wide range of climatic conditions in eastern Australia suggested that the present sediment yields are far in excess of those which may have prevailed in the geological past . |
| 13 | Not only were disquieting statements made about certain rota solicitors but by rota members regarding themselves , which suggested that the present criterion for admission is a failure : |