Example sentences of "[noun] at the present [noun] " 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 | Well , if one looks at the Sussex coast at the present day , most of the Sussex coast is protected in some way from the action of the sea , either by a sea wall , or by a groined beach . |
| 3 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 10 | This was discussed at the beginning of the previous chapter , but it needs to be stated again that there seem to be comparatively few and small areas on the shelves at the present day where sediment is actively accumulating . |
| 11 | Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One can show this by considering a very different state for the universe at the present time , say , a very lumpy and irregular one . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | off that , er I think several of us believe that the complexities of trust law at the present moment can make it very difficult if one agreed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are about 20 intra-oceanic island arcs located along subduction zones at the present day , the great majority being found in the western Pacific Ocean ( Fig. 3.6 ) . |
| 18 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is little disagreement with the view that the principal public interest issue at the present time is the quality of audit-ing . |
| 21 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 22 | This , of course , is an issue very much apparent in the fortunes of local railway lines at the present day . |
| 23 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As we review the way teachers are feeling about their job at the present time , many of the experiences will be common enough . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |