Example sentences of "[subord] in the present [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And if in the present case the staff plan is at fault , blame can be laid at no one 's door but my own .
3 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) .
4 … 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 .
5 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 .
6 For in the present climate of opinion this is what might be conveyed .
7 More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise .
8 But it is an excellent sauce in its own right , hot with a boiled chicken , beef , lamb and fish , or cold as in the present case .
9 But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ?
10 In the absence of express language , section 87 should not be construed in a manner which can only , as in the present case , produce unwelcome and unjustifiable distress and hardship in the event of an untimely death .
11 The jury has sought assistance and , once it appears that the problem is one of fact , the judge has not inquired further but has merely given general guidance , as in the present case .
12 The possibility of obtaining damages from the state is particularly essential where , as in the present case , the full effect of Community provisions is conditional on the state taking certain action , and , in consequence , in the absence of such action being taken , individuals can not rely on the rights accorded to them by Community law before national courts .
13 The second is that , when the revenue makes a demand for tax , that demand is implicitly backed by the coercive powers of the state and may well entail ( as in the present case ) unpleasant economic and social consequences if the taxpayer does not pay .
14 ‘ These two cases , then , make it perfectly clear that when he is sued , as in the present case , on the covenants contained in the original lease , the original tenant 's only possible defences are either : ( 1 ) that he has performed the covenants ; or ( 2 ) that the relevant assignee has performed the covenants ; or ( 3 ) there has been some other operation conducted upon the lease — for example surrender of the whole — which has put a complete end to the liability to pay rent .
15 If the discretion can be exercised where there has been a fraudulent misrepresentation , as in the present case , it must be exercisable also where a merely innocent misrepresentation has been made .
16 However , where , as in the present case , there is an injunction in force , it seems to me that Mr. Langley and Mr. Philipson are right in saying that it is open to the court to consider the issue of validity , since , if the notice were indeed invalid , it could not override the injunction or give grounds for a variation .
17 In my judgment , when dealing with the Rome Convention in relation to persons of United Kingdom domicile under Schedule 4 , as in the present case , the court can and should likewise take into account substantive derogations from the Rome Convention in the law of the United Kingdom , especially one so directly apposite as that presently in question .
18 Where however , as in the present case , there is an Order in Council under section 2 of the Extradition Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 52 ) in force in relation to a foreign state , Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 ( which derives from the Act of 1870 and certain associated enactments ) applies , subject to the terms of the Order in Council which embodies the relevant Treaty .
19 This principle must be stronger when , as in the present case , the specialised and narrower meaning is also the primary meaning .
20 If it were to be held that judicial review for error of law lay against the visitor I fear that , as in the present case , finality would be lost not only in cases raising pure questions of law but also in cases where it would be urged in accordance with the Wednesbury principle ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B .
21 When , as in the present case , the lease has been assigned on the terms that the sureties will guarantee performance by the assignee of the lease , justice and common sense ought to require the sureties , not the original tenant , to be primarily liable in the event of default by the assignee .
22 The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance .
23 Of course , similar materials have been successfully applied to fibre pile , as in the present range of Pertex covered pile from buffalo Designs .
24 Discussion of the phrase at the Hague is something of a hardy perennial , because of the evident fascination of different methods of categorising legal rules , and the issue arises in the context of the taking of evidence abroad as well as in the present context .
25 In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation .
26 To accurately determine the effect of hyperglycaemia on gastrointestinal function we think it is essential to stabilise serum glucose concentrations as in the present study by glucose clamp techniques .
27 Mucosal oxyntic biopsy specimens were taken from the same defined area and tissues were processed in the same way as in the present study .
28 Frustration , rage , bitterness , fear , despair , hate , envy , lust , pride — always in plentiful supply where human beings settled throughout the globe , but never so much in supply as in the present age of mass psychosis .
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