Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The principles of Cristofori 's action design have been retained in instruments from 1720 to the present day . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the rate of growth of self-employment from 1979 to the present time among ( a ) men and ( b ) women . |
| 3 | Sabastio Salgado , includes some of his most important work from the 70s to the present day ( 28 Feb–4 Apr ) . |
| 4 | Sebastiao Salgado , includes some of his most important work from the 70s to the present day ( until 4 Apr . ) . |
| 5 | This forms the nucleus of a comprehensive collection of programmes dating from the 1840s to the present day , which continues steadily to increase . |
| 6 | History of Art 1 covers Western art , particularly painting and sculpture , from c. 1500 to the present day . |
| 7 | Another significant area of outstanding work is late benefit applications which total over 30,000 at the present time although some of these are speculative and some also apply to Community Charge as well as Council Tax . |
| 8 | By plotting the areal distribution of marine strata and making reasonable inferences from facies distributions about the location of former shorelines , it has been established that for long periods of time in the Phanerozoic , especially in the early Palaeozoic and late Cretaceous , the continents have been inundated by up to two thirds of the present area by epicontinental seas . |
| 9 | Article 5. ( 1 ) Until the completion of the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces from the territory of the present GDR and of Berlin in accordance with Article 4 of the present treaty , only German territorial defence units which are not integrated into the alliance structures to which German armed forces in the rest of German territory are assigned will be stationed in that territory as armed forces of the united Germany . |
| 10 | After unloading by evaporation the crust rose and shoreline features are now elevated up to 64 m above the present water level . |
| 11 | Christie 's might occasionally be blamed for ‘ too many notes ’ at least with regard to minor lots ( see lot 18 in the present sale ) but their catalogues are undoubtedly superior at the present time . |
| 12 | Keen gardeners with an interest in the history and design of gardens will have an unprecedented opportunity to see original designs from 1600 to the present day for gardens and garden buildings in the National Trust 's care . |
| 13 | The exhibition ostensibly covers three-quarters of a century of art — from the Armory Show of 1913 to the present day . |
| 14 | The second wave , from the 1970s to the present day , have limited their attention to the question ‘ how effective is a particular program with a particular type of client ? ’ |
| 15 | However , the needs of the 1970s to the present day have made representation in established and new financial centres absolutely essential . |
| 16 | The research aims to provide : 1 ) the first ever intensive study of the effects of the confrontation from the early 1970s to the present day ; 2 ) an ethnographic study of one Navarran village , and of its political and economic connections with Pamplona , the Navarran capital . |
| 17 | The original castle was built by King John in 1235 on the present day site of Castle Street in the city centre . |
| 18 | By introducing a tax on residential property that raised about £14 billion , together with the £12 billion that comes from taxing commercial property , and by allocating the remaining £14 billion via the present system of grants , the government would be able to pronounce the poll tax dead . |
| 19 | A useful complement for people interested in communism 's travails is an excellent illustrated history of the movement from 1848 to the present day , edited by Geoffrey Stern . |
| 20 | The Gentlemen of the Chapels royal from 1135 to the present day . |
| 21 | Spalding calls the period from 1930 to the present day the cooptive period because of the attempts made by the elite to integrate labour into the established political and social framework . |
| 22 | When questioned in August 1978 by the present author about the basis of her political strategy , she replied : ‘ My political beliefs ’ . |
| 23 | I know that a Labour Government will be returned and I am sure that that Government will not take as long as from 1986 to the present time , as this Government have , to do something constructive about changing the law and bringing in legislation that could be enforced throughout the country . |
| 24 | This research will build upon the Manchester Down 's Syndrome Cohort Study , a longitudinal study of a representative sample of children with Down 's syndrome and their families , from the birth of children between 1973 and 1980 to the present time . |
| 25 | Visitors will also recognize artefacts dating from the swinging 60s to the present day . |
| 26 | Proceeds from the game will be given to charity The game is to be at the end of August at Northallerton 's ground on a date to be arranged Former players from the 60s to the present day are asked to contact John Murdoch ( 0609771139 ) or David Thorne ( 0609779465 ) |
| 27 | This can be one of the present clone types or any of the brush styles , from charcoal to Japanese watercolour . |
| 28 | And the more crowded , the more satisfied the police , as that means they are efficiently carrying out the law against prostitution — one of the present government 's most notable social " contributions " . |
| 29 | One of the present group , , is already proving her talent as an electrician . |
| 30 | Regular England players would now miss only seven of the 17 games , as opposed to a possible 13 under the present system . |