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

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1 I want to retain the present engine 's performance but increase the miles per gallon .
2 MAX : Stop using the present tense .
3 In the absence of these things , I seek to defend the present service as the best achievable .
4 Thus the archaeocyathids ( or Pleospogia ) of the Cambrian , certain brachiopods and forams in the Permian and the rudistid bivalves in the Cretaceous all seem to parallel the present equator .
5 Id like to see the present formation kept as is .
6 The proposals also aim to overcome the present problems relating to the independence , accountability and legal liability of external auditors .
7 They , therefore , prefer to retain the present approach .
8 To answer this question we need to know the present rate of expansion of the universe and its present average density .
9 To avoid such a catastrophe they offer IBM a 12 point set of minimum recommendations , which include replacing the present leadership with ‘ technically current ’ managers and board members raided from younger companies , be tougher on salaries and golden handshakes , slow investment on traditional systems , give its semiconductor business complete perestroika , stop losing money on PCs or stop making them , and commercialise more of its research .
10 Instead , he quotes Benjamin Thompson , Count Rumford , active around 1800 , as ‘ the prototype of the scientific adventurers who have beset the present age of great projects .
11 We have inherited the present Earth .
12 Continuous modifications over the years have left the present course as a lovely example of rural heathland golf .
13 The Uses of Life explores the complex developments in industry , science and Government that have coloured the present expectations of the technology .
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