Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be enough to see the RAF through the present war . |
| 2 | He also took courses in Continental , European and American Drama ( from Ibsen to the present day ) ; and English Prose from Francis Bacon to the Present ( which included both fiction and non-fiction ) . |
| 3 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 4 | Because you spoke about Heather in the present tense , as if you genuinely believe she 's still alive . ’ |
| 5 | As the Chancellor 's friends should know , the Government have been warned every year — from the days of Mr. Vredeling until the present time — that additionality is essential , and that this country is breaking the rules . |
| 6 | If this be the right view of Dixon J. 's judgment [ at pp. 683–685 ] , then it is clear that it does not help Mrs. Perry in the present case . |
| 7 | This is a sad opportunity missed not to discuss the background to the production of the books listed in Mr Jentsch 's catalogue : the tradition of printing in Italy from the earliest printed books through to Bodoni and on to Mardersteig in the present century , and the vital role played by the publisher in the production of any limited edition artist 's book . |
| 8 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 9 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
| 10 | Many modern commentators , from Burke , Hamilton and Madison to the present day , have frankly seen the device of representation as a means of limiting popular participation and control , and of retaining the day-to-day powers of government in the hands of a ( preferably enlightened ) elite . |
| 11 | The communiqué , dated May 27 , reiterated Pyongyang 's past efforts to avoid formalizing a " permanent split " of the Korean peninsula through dual membership , but concluded that " we have no alternative but to enter the UN at the present stage as a step to tide over such temporary difficulties created by the South Korean authorities " . |
| 12 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 13 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 14 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |
| 15 | The term epeirogeny was in fact first coined by G. K. Gilbert in 1890 to describe the isostatic uplift which occurred as a result of the evaporation of Lake Bonneville in Utah in the western U S A ( leaving the much smaller Great Salt Lake of the present day ) . |
| 16 | If that is , as I believe it to be , the correct approach , then it does not appear to have been adopted by Thorpe J. in the present case . |
| 17 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 18 | From the time of the resurrection of handmade table ware in the United Kingdom to the present day , the booms in sales of craft ware follows closely the introductions of major technological changes and their ever increasingly felt effect on all aspects of life . |
| 19 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 20 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 21 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 22 | Such regional devolution is well known and topical in the United Kingdom at the present day . |
| 23 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 24 | The series will cover the history of painting in Britain from Holbein to the present day , in its wider context of European art and its development through the 19th and 20th century . |
| 25 | On April 3 the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali reported to the Security Council that " it is unlikely that the UN will be able for much longer to maintain a peacekeeping presence in Cyprus on the present scale " . |
| 26 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 27 | Ex. 21 as there is an unlimited number of models to be found among the works of the great masters of orchestration from Haydn to the present day . |
| 28 | The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . |
| 29 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |
| 30 | John Wildig — BR from Beeching to the Present Day |