Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 2 | 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature . |
| 3 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 4 | Or as time travellers returning to the present day from the future . |
| 5 | I think we need another war to get rid of the er get rid of some of the thing that 's happening at the present day . |
| 6 | This view was taken from where the Mowlem now stands , looking towards the present Forte 's corner . |
| 7 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 8 | In the present study , the noun-noun combination does not produce any more reliable plural continuations than does the name-name combination , so such a contrast mechanism is not operating in the present study . |
| 9 | If the recommendations of the White Paper Working for patients are implemented according to the present timetable , then managers are going to have to decide whether to become primarily ‘ purchasers ’ or ‘ providers ’ of services . |
| 10 | Physiological disorders , like cancer in humans and animals ( according to the present state and progress in scientific knowledge and understanding ) , are not diseases caused by other life forms like bacteria , bacilli , fungus or virus ( although cancer opinion is beginning to waver with regard to virus ) . |
| 11 | According to the present legal definition , rape is sexual intercourse which takes place without a woman 's consent . |
| 12 | A white paper containing a plan for single-tier local authorities is to be published in June or July according to the present timetable for council reform . |
| 13 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 14 | Looking at the present state of the Top 40 singles chart , the recent appearance of a song entitled Dolphins Make Me Cry by Welsh songwriter/guitarist Martyn Joseph was especially surprising . |
| 15 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 16 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 17 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 18 | I mean , number of premises experiencing experience at least halving of the present traffic . |
| 19 | updating report , Chairman , I 've these past , the contract for the on-site services has now been let by , by the County Council 's private ent department , they 're actually going in the present time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 22 | With almost all posts going to the present Shadows , interest centres on the choice of Lord Chancellor . |
| 23 | Ex exactly the same as going to the present day . |
| 24 | This was one of the more powerful myths leading to the present government 's keen interest in policies geared towards the encouragement of small firms . |
| 25 | Disputes over the impact of the mine , and the distribution ofits profits , provoked the uprising in 1988 , leading to the present state of de facto independence from Papua New Guinea . |
| 26 | The authority said yesterday that the delays arose because the research amounted to what scientists called a ‘ blue skies ’ project because it involved going beyond the present capacity of the reactor design . |
| 27 | In evaluating credit scoring at the present time , we had to consider three aspects : |
| 28 | We may be better off with health care contracts if money follows the patient as the government er intends it to do , but we just do n't know and that 's what we 're investigating at the present time . |
| 29 | And in nineteen twenty er strike going at the present day there was what we called the soup kitchens . |
| 30 | It will not come from Government spending , because the Government will have to borrow massively to keep going at the present mean levels of public spending . |