Example sentences of "[prep] the present situation " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 2 | Peter Lawrence , vice-chairman of the East Anglian branch of the Railway Development Society , said : ‘ From the commuter 's point of view that is very welcome , but all the same we do understand the concerns within the union about the present situation . |
| 3 | Is this hostility the result of feeling threatened and insecure about the present situation ? |
| 4 | Many of our users want information about the present situation , or at least the most recent data available , and are not interested in data from previous Censuses . |
| 5 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 6 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 7 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 8 | Some aspects of the present situation such as urban unemployment and the evolution of communication and educational technology are important because they may lead to changes in educational systems which would coincidentally lead to changes in development . |
| 9 | In a review of the present situation of soil degradation in ten countries of the Near East , Rafiq ( 1978 : 9 ) states that : ‘ in most countries only qualitative information is available , ’ a view which Stocking ( 1978a ) shares with reference to Africa . |
| 10 | We tend to have a life of total acceptance of the present situation we find ourselves in , immovable precepts often imposed either by our own programming , the weight of tradition or our own fears of change . |
| 11 | Socio-economic conditions of the present situation , regarding shortage of natural resources , limitation of mass markets , and slow growth . |
| 12 | The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation . |
| 13 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in the basic tension within humanism — the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world — namely the conflict between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 14 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in a basic tension within humanism ( the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world ) namely between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 15 | Only thus could he step outside of the present situation and hope to puzzle out the riddle of Zephro Carnelian — even while being forced to react predictably … |
| 16 | As Khrushchev expressed it , ‘ We consider , proceeding from a Marxist-Leninist analysis of the present situation , that war is not inevitable today . |
| 17 | One other critical feature of the present situation for maintaining the ministry of the word should be mentioned : it concerns the study of the biblical languages ( Hebrew , Aramaic and Greek ) and those of the classical ancient versions , at a level sufficient to assure that there will be enough scholars able to serve as fully competent exegetes and , therefore , as active tradents of Tradition . |
| 18 | Other articles include an examination of the present situation for journalists in Panama and an essay by Aung San Suu Kyi , Burma 's leading politician and dissident , who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought . |
| 19 | The hypocritical nature of the present situation reflects little credit on the British tax system or on the British political system . |
| 20 | The Munn Report , therefore , started with an analysis of the present situation , which considered such issues as certificate versus non-certificate courses , the problem of lower ability children being pushed into ‘ O ’ grade examinations which they were not intended to cater for , the need to prepare pupils for life in a modern industrial society , and the importance of analysing the content , teaching methods , learning milieu , and informal aspects of the curriculum . |
| 21 | The implications of the present situation are serious and present a threat to the future of a great British choral tradition . |
| 22 | The object of this book is to give one person 's view on the possible causes of the present situation and to stimulate discussion , hoping that new and , if necessary , radical ideas are created in the spirit that it is better to express a constructive view rather than to passively accept a disagreeable situation with discontent . |
| 23 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 24 | Welcoming Valverde 's relatively prompt resignation , it commented : " Perhaps the most disturbing feature of the present situation is the underground connections of these scandals with the irregular financing of the political parties . " |
| 25 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 26 | The complex arguments which lay behind the present situation — and the possible solutions — are , however , beyond the scope of this chapter . |
| 27 | And I 'm quite happy with the present situation . |
| 28 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 29 | The creation of a metaphorical reality is achieved through the process of extracting from the present objective situation signals and signs appropriate to an absent significant reality , for use in the construction of that absent reality within the present situation . |
| 30 | In the present situation , there is more and more scope for adult or continuing education , with an older or academically late-developing constituency . |