Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 2 | Such a scheme would undoubtedly provide a greater degree of certainty than under the present law but would be open to the objection that it would leave without redress any persons suffering injury from an unlisted activity , whether omission arose from ignorance of the risk or commercial or political pressures on the government of the day . |
| 3 | He will thus be better equipped to give an informed opinion than under the present procedure when the papers are returned to him some months later through the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 4 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 5 | As Mr. Glick showed Campbell v. Hall , 1 Cowp. 204 which appears to be favourable to Woolwich was really concerned with constitutional issues rather than with the present question . |
| 6 | Measures to remove biliary tract calculi can be considered , although from the present study benefit from such procedures only occurred in four of 16 patients and stones recurred in 12 of 12 . |
| 7 | He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi . |
| 8 | Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists . |
| 9 | In relation to Europe and 1992 , it is expected that there will be substantial growth in many markets ( particularly Spain ) , although at the present time EC rules and regulations on pensions are still being liberalised . |
| 10 | His leadership was never less disputed than at the present moment . |
| 11 | Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time . |
| 12 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 13 | The yearly catch of sand-eels rose to a peak of 52,000 tonnes in 1982 , but then began to decline until in the present season only some 2,000 tonnes were landed . |
| 14 | And if in the present case the staff plan is at fault , blame can be laid at no one 's door but my own . |
| 15 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 16 | ‘ Because of the present state of the economy and also because of the seasonal nature of the main businesses , with the large majority of profits usually earned in the second half , it is too early to form a clear view of the outcome for the year , ’ the group added . |
| 17 | Once again , traditional and Project 2000 nursing students will be split because of the present government 's contempt for nursing students . |
| 18 | Because of the present shortage of entrants to general practice , we received only two replies to each of our advertisements . |
| 19 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 20 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing . |
| 22 | That raises matters principle because under the present law it is a public very large vehicle which has to be alert . |
| 23 | It is also interesting to note that , when Labour was last in power , the combined contribution to the national insurance scheme by an employee earning £52 a week and his employer was £10.40 , while under the present Government it is £3.43 . |
| 24 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 on the ground that there was no restriction upon the use to which information gained by the exercise of the inquisitorial power there under review could be put by the prosecution , whereas in the present case its use was restricted by section 2(8) . |
| 25 | Whereas at the present time , with the buses , it 's all deficits . |
| 26 | … The problem is whether in the present case , which arises out of the use by the defendant of a motor car on a public highway , the circumstances produced such a relationship between the defendant and the infant plaintiff as to impose a duty on the defendant in relation to the plaintiff . |
| 27 | The second chamber could be appointed either by the Prime Minister as under the present system for the appointment of life peers or by various interest groups who would be entitled to nominate representatives . |
| 28 | As with the present system , there will be help for those who receive the full rebates : additional payments are to be made to Income Support rates to cover the 20 per cent minimum community charge . |
| 29 | Now it is said that when in the present case the tenant entered pursuant to the agreement and paid a yearly rent he became a tenant from year to year on the terms of the agreement including clause 6 which prevents the landlord from giving notice to quit until the land is required for road widening . |
| 30 | For in the present climate of opinion this is what might be conveyed . |