Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] present " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grants will initially be frozen at their present level , while the loans will rise in line with inflation until they reach the level of the grant . |
| 2 | Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now . |
| 3 | It 's also worth looking at your present routine to see if it can be streamlined . |
| 4 | ‘ If I kept scoring at my present rate I would end up with 40 goals but you know you 're going to have a lean spell at some time . |
| 5 | Therapist : ‘ OK , now let's come up-to-date and look at your present situation . |
| 6 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 7 | If you are to follow a weight loss programme , while continuing to exercise at your present level , there are two important points to remember . |
| 8 | Today the melanistic moths are still thriving in the grimier habitats and , if our cities go on spreading at their present rate , these black ones may well become the common form of the species . |
| 9 | Group chairman Tom Peacock said if crime in Darlington stays at its present level Victim Support will have dealt with more than 4,600 incidents by the end of the year , compared to last year 's total of 2,789 . |
| 10 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 11 | I have already mentioned the principal reason — that we are predators and our ravishing of the earth 's resources , if continued at its present rate , will lead to disaster for our patient planet . |
| 12 | Staff from his department would remain at their present headquarters near the House of Commons for the next three years . |
| 13 | She wondered how long she would be able to continue at her present pace . |
| 14 | If BR 's investment budget remains at its present level then many more lines will close . |
| 15 | This will take the company 's total workforce in the city to over 400 — and even more jobs could follow if Direct Line 's rate of growth continues at its present level . |
| 16 | If the study of genetic aspects of colorectal cancer continues at its present pace , molecular biology may soon outgrow its immediate role as a research tool and take its place on the clinical stage . |
| 17 | According to Professor Charles Boudouresque of Marseilles University , " the Mediterranean faces an ecological disaster if the seaweed continues to proliferate at its present rate " . |
| 18 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 19 | It is probable that oil demand in Canada will fall no further but by conservation and energy efficiency may be kept at its present level to the end of the century without inhibiting economic growth . |
| 20 | Ideally , the salary of the disabled employee should be ‘ red-circled ’ or maintained at its present level , but only if red-circling would also occur upon reassignment for other reasons . |