Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I would emphasise then , again , that the resolution is intended to enable the present position to continue , and to enable your trustees to manage the funds effectively in setting the policy and benefiting from the advice which is available . |
| 2 | The final paragraph should have explained that our objection to the proposal to put steps down if the path slipped due to the retaining wall collapsing was that a ) steps would be dangerous for the many elderly people who used the footpath ; b ) it would mean the council cutting into our upper bank and undermining our house garden wall and c ) the council should consider the alternative access to the path offered by our neighbour , Mr M Jones if they did not intend to preserve the present route . |
| 3 | John Millington , principal training adviser for the Engineering Industry Training Board , says employers would like to see the present system streamlined , with fewer syllabuses and more emphasis on assessing a wider range of skills . |
| 4 | Had he lived to see the present development of union organization , with its emphasis on restrictive employment and job demarcation , he might have wished to revise some of his views . |
| 5 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 6 | They would like to see the present role of parish councils retained and enhanced . |
| 7 | Id like to see the present formation kept as is . |
| 8 | But the reality was that the referendum showed that there was no majority , and the people of Wales recognised that it would be in the best interests of their country and the United Kingdom to sustain the present arrangements . |
| 9 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 10 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 11 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 12 | Can he assure us that he would not be prepared to support the present EMU treaty , which does not contain the provisions and safeguards that he has mentioned ? |
| 13 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 14 | ‘ The effect of deleting this subclause will be to continue the present basis of taxation of services , namely the cost to the employer of providing the service . |
| 15 | The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use . |
| 16 | Without that , British Coal will be unable to continue the present level of redundancy pay or the redeployment , retraining or job placement schemes that it supports . |
| 17 | As any changes to the Parish Council 's bank accounts must be authorised by the Parish Councillors I would ask you to continue the present arrangement until they have had a chance to discuss any alterations you might suggest . |
| 18 | At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law . |
| 19 | then proposed and seconded the adoption of the Directors Report ( as amended by the proposal not to reappoint the present auditors ) and the Revenue Account and Balance Sheet , and this was carried unanimously . |
| 20 | But if unionists could be persuaded to accept the present Anglo-Irish Agreement , with increased local democracy , and if the SDLP would settle for a unionist input into cross-border institutions covering common interests like agriculture , tourism and roads , would this not be progress ? |
| 21 | He , and the Secretary of State Ian Lang , are unlikely to accept the present proposals . |
| 22 | The overriding objective of the Abbey National Board is to ensure that the Society can continue to meet the present and future requirements of its Members . |
| 23 | These are a practical necessity and it would be quite impossible to meet the present demand for meat and dairy products , except in certain rural areas , from the products of traditional farms that were the order of the day in Europe and North America up until the Second World War : |
| 24 | Only when we have established the facts will we be in a position to make moves to change the situation , and we need your assistance to establish the present position . |
| 25 | Next year , he has pledged to increase the present company car taxing scales by 8pc , but from 1995 drivers will pay tax according to the manufacturer 's list price for each car . |
| 26 | The Scottish Office consultation document on plans to dismantle the present two-tier structure of councils makes proposals for fundamental political and administrative reform in a quite cursory way , they state . |
| 27 | But if they have produced nothing by then to diminish the present perception of the fudgeability of accounts , they are hardly likely to survive that long . |
| 28 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 29 | Admittedly , it will be difficult to unscramble the present system , but it is not yet too late to extend VAT and other forms of sales taxes to relieve and even eliminate the direct pressures on the country 's earners . |
| 30 | Today the Royalists were back in Worcester … to escort the present mayor to London … he 's been invited to take part in the civil war anniversary celebrations at the palace of Westminster . |