Example sentences of "the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an author who has contributed to the Russia which has come after him — to the emergence there , at the present time , of the demand for a lawful Opposition , for the duality of democracy . |
| 2 | Within the academic theory of the present time , approaches may either begin with literature , or with disciplines external to it . |
| 3 | At the present time , it has become attenuated but not extinct , and it continues in the long review-articles in the new York Review of Books and London Review of Books , and a few other periodicals . |
| 4 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 5 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 6 | At the present time , there is much interest in the English past , evoked in exhibitions commemorating historical events , and evident in the spread of museums and the great popularity of visiting country homes . |
| 7 | The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review . |
| 8 | This rivalry , reflected in the conflicts between the successor political parties , and the interest groups they represent , has continued to be the main engine of Nigerian politics to the present time . |
| 9 | At the present time , as we have described , the problem with daytime sleep is believed to be only that it is too short . |
| 10 | It is important to recognize that an identical project promoted at the present time would not offer good value for money in comparison with a new-build scheme . |
| 11 | Probably the most common type of conversion project at the present time is the adaptation of a mill or warehouse into a block of dwellings . |
| 12 | At the present time your plenty will supply what they need ; so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need . |
| 13 | The EC Commission said much the same in its submission to the Energy Committee : ‘ At the present time the FBR is the only reactor type which could , if introduced early enough , extend the lifetime of our uranium resources to the end of the next century — and beyond . ’ |
| 14 | It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration . |
| 15 | The despair in the air was particularly dense at the present time , though its monetarist perpetrators were now fighting a rearguard action against the rest of Europe . |
| 16 | At the same time these results are likely to be slow , and if we are right in our conclusion that we are faced at the present time with a certain amount of abnormal employment of a quasi-permanent character , then it is not sufficient to solely rely on the gradual improvement of productive efficiency . |
| 17 | It is this School which has continued to influence , both directly and indirectly , the best dressage riders and instructors of the present time . |
| 18 | It would be particularly appropriate at the present time to pay more attention to this aspect , and to obtain better information about crofters ' levels of living , including the subsistence component and remittances from emigrants . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , at the present time , there appears to be a marked lack of systematic attempts to create a focus on community and rural development within formal education . |
| 20 | At the present time , it is very desperate , or I would not bother you . |
| 21 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 22 | Although no separate figures are yet available on short-term care facilities , the consensus is that they are inadequate at the present time . |
| 23 | If however it is felt that some of our members are n't being catered for at the present time please let the group organisers know so that , if possible , adjustments may be made . |
| 24 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 25 | Just at the present time everything looks so fresh . |
| 26 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 27 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 28 | These are the essential demands of the present time . |
| 29 | At the present time the strength of the Catholic and nationalist forces in the North lies in their political discipline and restraint . |
| 30 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |