Example sentences of "and [prep] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 2 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
| 3 | The circumstances of Goldberg 's case and of the present case were distinguishable from those of The Palermo , and of Watson v Cammel Laird in the way indicated in Watson v Cammel Laird when explaining the decision in Chadwick v Bowman . |
| 4 | And with the present government they 're more scared to talk now than ever before . ’ |
| 5 | I currently have 10 days Annual Leave entitlement outstanding , and with the present staffing situation in the Library it is unlikely that I will be able to take any leave in January . |
| 6 | In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day . |
| 7 | Then Clan Douglas established their dynasty , and until the present day , the Douglas family , in their various departments , have played a major part in shaping Scotland 's story . |
| 8 | This discussion in the opening chapter lays the groundwork for a consideration of the key questions the author has set himself to address , about the way power relationships historically and in the present structure the caring professions and shape their interactions with service users and other professional groups . |
| 9 | The other ‘ road ’ had been developed when in Avon Finance v Bridger [ 1985 ] 2 A11 ER 281 the court envisaged the extension of the protection previously given to wives to elderly parents , and in the present case Scott LJ saw no reason why the ‘ protection ’ should not extend to all cases where the relationship between the surety and debtor was one in which influence by the debtor over the surety and reliance by the surety on the debtor were natural and probable . |
| 10 | He contends that the injuries in Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and in the present case ( on the facts assumed ) were caused not upon the birth of the plaintiff but prior to the birth . |
| 11 | And in the present case Mann L.J . |
| 12 | Since unc and in the present case q>0 , we find that unc decreases with increasing r . |
| 13 | ‘ In the judgment of this court it would be difficult , and in the present case it is unnecessary , to reduce within specific limits the general terms in which the duties of police constables have been expressed . |
| 14 | In a style modelled on the Platonic dialogues , Justin here interpreted Old Testament prophecies which he saw fulfilled in Jesus and in the present life of the church , already spreading throughout the known world . |
| 15 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 16 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 17 | However , if one looks at the size of family , the findings are fairly consistent : in the 1948 French study , for instance , housewives with one child put in on average a seventy-eight-hour week ; in the 1950 British study a sixty-seven-hour week , and in the present study a seventy-one-hour week was the average figure for housewives in this group . |
| 18 | If the rates for non-publication in entomology and in the present study are so similar , then extrapolation to other scientific disciplines within the UK university system suggests that far too little importance is attached to the dissemination of research results in this country by the bodies funding such research . |
| 19 | If the rates for non-publication in entomology and in the present study are so similar , then extrapolation to other scientific disciplines within the UK university system suggests that far too little importance is attached to the dissemination of research results in this country by the bodies funding such research . |
| 20 | Within the current therapeutic dose range there is no evidence to suggest dose dependent nephrotoxicity and in the present study long term maintenance treatment with delayed release mesalazine was no more nephrotoxic than continued treatment with sulphasalazine . |
| 21 | Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime . |
| 22 | Complete with provenance reaching back to the artist 's lifetime , and in the present owner 's family since 1690 , this painting 's attribution to Rembrandt has never been questioned . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will state the number of male and female unemployed in Wales for 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 and to the present date . |
| 24 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 25 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 26 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 27 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 28 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 29 | There is in this respect a total difference between Community legislation and British primary legislation , in respect of which there is no obligation to state reasons and at the present time no practice of doing so . |
| 30 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |