Example sentences of "[be] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 2 | Such are the present problems , Mr Lents believes , that it will be possible to persuade and coerce Angelenos to commute to work by train , bus or shared car . |
| 3 | It is the secrecy and lack of accountability that are the present system 's greatest faults . |
| 4 | What are the present technical problems ? |
| 5 | Some time after 1066 , the estate came into the possession of the Heslerton family from whom it passed by marriage in 1336 to the St Quintins and then by marriage again to the Legard family who are the present owners . |
| 6 | ‘ In this they are probably more in tune with reality than are the present byelaws . ’ |
| 7 | How reliable are the present tests ? |
| 8 | How real are the present trends in India and China ? |
| 9 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |
| 10 | The crucial issue is the resourcing of community economic development ; therefore , we should be asking are the present resources adequate and fairly distributed ? |
| 11 | The only major gaps in an otherwise even pattern of settlements are the present villages , and it is likely that many if not most of these are on earlier sites . |
| 12 | Yeah they 're they 're the present sizes now we 're talking about . |
| 13 | For Lewis , this was ‘ the personal heresy ’ , a vivid example of which would be the present biography , which seeks to shed light on a man 's work by researching into the recesses of his mind and the outward events of his life . |
| 14 | In general , the more heavily firms discount the future ( i.e. the higher their cost of capital ) the smaller will be the present value of future losses of profit caused by punishment , relative to the immediate gains from cheating on an agreement . |
| 15 | The starting point for organising the programme content of education or political action must be the present existential concrete situation reflecting the aspirations of the people . |
| 16 | Having decided on a transformation whose result may be the present tree , undoing this transformation . |
| 17 | should be the present tiller should re retain the approximate average per capita land , land holding in the in the locality . |
| 18 | The first Presbyterian minister came to Ballycarry from Drymen , Stirling — and the guest speaker will be the present minister of Drymen , the Rev John Hay . |
| 19 | It is believed that were the present definition broadened , the number affected would be between 10 000 and 100 000 , mostly male . |
| 20 | Twelve is the present average age for the menarche — or start of menstrual periods , which marks puberty . |
| 21 | 6 ‘ One difficulty in the way of this kind of re-organisation is the present examination system … . |
| 22 | In keeping open the lines with the past , the redeemed memory carries encouragement and conveys warnings and lessons to faith as faith is engaged in fighting at that front line of the battle which is the present moment . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 24 | What is the present position with the proposed series of steam operations out of the old Southern Railway termini ? |
| 25 | What is the present state of knowledge ? |
| 26 | Whilst there does not appear to be any universal agreement on the precise meaning to be attached to these prefixes ( compare the definitions of modern algebra in [ 71 , p. 669 ] and [ 81 , p. 702 ] ) we can fairly safely say that classical algebra is the present synonym for the theory of equations , a theory in which are manipulated symbols which invariably represent numbers , be they complex , real or rational . |
| 27 | It is the present role and perhaps dominance of the tutor which is most usefully challenged . |
| 28 | Norman Nicholson is the present laureate of the Lakes . |
| 29 | Accordingly he brought a further action , which is the present claim , based on allegations of breach of the agreement embodied in the Tomlin order on 10 June 1989 . |
| 30 | In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession . |