Example sentences of "[noun] at the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the current cuts in housing expenditure , however , very few tenants are likely to be rehoused from the lists at the present time . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |
| 3 | Rejecting a suggestion from Zambia 's President Kenneth Kaunda that the ANC should suspend its armed struggle in order to encourage further reforms on the part of the Pretoria government , Mandela said the ANC would make no concessions at the present time . |
| 4 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 5 | For example , where possible imperatives will be interpreted as relevant to the present interaction , and thus as requests to implement some action at the present time . |
| 6 | Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time . |
| 7 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 8 | Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time . |
| 9 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 10 | One can show this by considering a very different state for the universe at the present time , say , a very lumpy and irregular one . |
| 11 | The king , troubled by the prince 's displays of temperament and his unwillingness to follow the advice of those who had charge of him , mindful also of his own unrobust health , considered it would be unwise for himself and his brother to receive visitors at the present time . |
| 12 | Business strength is a measure of the proficiency with which the firm deals with all aspects of the specific product/market complex in question at the present time . |
| 13 | There is little disagreement with the view that the principal public interest issue at the present time is the quality of audit-ing . |
| 14 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 15 | As we review the way teachers are feeling about their job at the present time , many of the experiences will be common enough . |
| 16 | Well , no security is one hundred per cent , it 's impossible to make any area completely secure , but it 's as tight as it possibly can be and I 'm quite happy with the security at the present time . |
| 17 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 18 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 19 | other than in that respect it would erm it would reduce representation to mem members I would say by about forty percent at the present time before structures etcetera etcetera were sorted out . |
| 20 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 21 | There is a shortfall on the membership at the present time MAINLY due to the closure of some of our SPECIAL NEEDS groups . |
| 22 | The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds . |
| 23 | Erm we perceive no need at the present time for such an exception and the borough council seem to have accepted that . |
| 24 | 1.6 This allowance is based upon staff who are at the top of the grade at the present time and translates into the following : |
| 25 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 26 | As was stated above , 51.5 per cent of the population at the present time have purchased their own housing , 28.5 per cent with mortgages ( CSO , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
| 28 | And in fact the evidence suggests I that in the three years remaining till ninety six , it is most unlikely that those twenty five thousand dwellings will be developed , given the alteration at the present time . |
| 29 | She has had treatment in hospital for depression and is under sedation at the present time . |
| 30 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |