Example sentences of "[verb] a present " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a present Ian . |
| 2 | Though set in a biblical past , the poem used the popular application of typology to indicate a present importance . |
| 3 | All costs are expressed in 1989/90 prices , and where costs have been incurred beyond the first year , then the Treasury 's recommended discount rate of 6% has been applied to obtain a present value estimate . |
| 4 | Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m . |
| 5 | Bottom-hole temperatures from wells in southern England suggest that the region has a present geothermal gradient close to the world average for cratonic areas of 25° C/km . |
| 6 | Rank Organisation ( owner of 49% of Rank Xerox and a variety of leisure activities ) has issued an 8.25p convertible preference that has a present price of 94p , giving a gross yield of 11.7% . |
| 7 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 8 | As the hobby of metal detecting in Britain has a present following of a quarter of a million people ( plus sympathetic friends and family ) the way we vote could decide which party is to come to power . |
| 9 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
| 10 | Britain , a few years ago , denied extradition to Italy of a convicted terrorist , saying piously that ‘ his personal conduct ’ was not ‘ such as to constitute a present threat to one of the fundamental interests of society ’ . |
| 11 | Mm , so they 're , you 're doing a present value expression . |
| 12 | There 's also a ‘ back-up supervisor ’ which can be set to prompt you to start a present back-up routine . |
| 13 | Here the resulting effect is to emphatically assert a present state . |
| 14 | They 're , yes , they 're , they 're making a present value of |
| 15 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 16 | To act in the heat of passion is to perpetuate a present state , not to initiate a new one ; for something new to come in , space has to be made . |
| 17 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 18 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |