Example sentences of "of the present day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pale Hawksmoor is an inhabitant of the present day who reminds one not only of Dyer but of P. D. James 's character Inspector Dalgliesh — one of her novels , A Taste for Death , published a few months after Hawksmoor , has a church murder in London , draped in the poses of this sensitive , cultivated policeman , and it also has , like Hawksmoor , a suspected tramp . |
| 2 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 3 | The only note of criticism which can be sounded in relation to the admirable job of careful conversion which created much needed and characterful dwellings within the shell of a disused church at St James Court emerges from the preservation-conscious atmosphere of the present day . |
| 4 | Aided by cheap drum machines and synthesizers , these canny aspirants endeavour to construct a spectacular pop by distilling the pop essence from all past efflorescences , using the hindsight sophistication of the present day . |
| 5 | The change in emphasis was noted in 1893 by another Baptist minister , Thomas Morris : ‘ It is the fashion of the present day to exaggerate the importance and power of circumstances ’ , to put ‘ society ’ above individuals , whereas Christianity , he argued , ‘ must begin at the centre , and not at the circumference . ’ |
| 6 | Others , however , retained their traditional belief : T. M. Morris declared in his 1893 Presidential Address to the Baptist Union that the ‘ fashion of the present day ’ was to ‘ exaggerate the importance and power of circumstances ’ whereas Christianity was based on the individual . |
| 7 | Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is to the decoration of the railroad station . |
| 8 | I know that many teachers of the present day think that learning by rote is archaic . |
| 9 | ‘ Modernizing has , however , recently spoiled many of these buildings , and a few years more will probably see them pared and plaistered into all the monotony of the erections of the present day . ’ |
| 10 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 11 | It has been officially reckoned by educationalists that school-leavers of yesteryear ( even at 14 ) were far more advanced in the three R's and the sciences than their counterparts of the present day who leave at 16 . |
| 12 | The parallels drawn in the services between the sufferings of our Divine Redeemer and those of the ‘ Royal Martyr ’ , he added , were utterly repugnant to feelings of the present day , and the affirmation that King Charles was among ‘ the greatest of Kings and best of men ’ was now quite unacceptable to many excellent members of the Church . |
| 13 | And to do that it had to follow the successful formula of the present day , of which the leading exponent was the Sun . |
| 14 | Is it realistic to talk of a multiplicity of body plans in the Cambrian , far exceeding that of the present day ? |
| 15 | There is little understanding of the tasks and challenges of the present day . |
| 16 | He charted the progress of time-resolved photochemical methods , from the millisecond flash-photolysis experiments of the 1950s , which he helped pioneer , to the femtosecond pulses of the present day . |
| 17 | ‘ A somewhat unlovely characteristic of the present day ’ , Mrs Helen Bosanquet wrote in 1906 , was that ‘ there is among the children a prevailing and increasing want of respect towards their elders , more especially , perhaps , towards their parents ’ . |
| 18 | ( In a Lie algebra multiplication and addition satisfy unc Lie groups and Lie algebras form a major component of the present day theoretical physicists ' armoury . |
| 19 | Sexual values also were different from those of the present day — virginity was more prized , promiscuity was frowned upon . |
| 20 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 21 | This was the route taken by Suworow 's army in 1799 when he discovered there was no road along the east shore of the Urner Lake ( along the line of the present day Axenstrasse ) from Altdorf . |
| 22 | It is remarkable that mental qualities that were selected for these purposes should have stood us in such good stead in the very different circumstances of the present day . |
| 23 | Avebury is a prehistoric enclosure measuring 1400ft across — some of the present day villages lie within its boundary . |
| 24 | The rich sonority of the lower register , in particular , has been exploited to both sinister and tranquil effect from Mahler , Stravinsky , and Prokofiev , to composers of the present day . |
| 25 | This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions . |
| 26 | But , in English of the present day , the word arable in the former phrase is clearly an associative adjective , setting off one group of farmers from others such as pig farmers . |
| 27 | The knowledge gained is concerned with the history of the development of the built environment and , as in other disciplines , the resulting insights contribute both to a critical understanding of the present day , and to the formulation of strategies for future development . |
| 28 | The number of states actively involved in international relations was very small by the standards of the present day and the relationships between them relatively clear-cut . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | One has to bear in mind that at the age at which McCausland was wireless operator/air gunner in the hostile skies over Italy , young men of the present day will be worrying about A-level results or first year at university . |